2013/6/4 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net>

>
> On 04/06/13 12:08, Pierre Joye wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa
>> <ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net**> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey :-),
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/06/13 08:52, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
>>>
>>>> It would be a *gigantic* patch, but the userland effects should be
>>>>> minimal (the only changes would be supporting longer strings, and
>>>>> consistent 64
>>>>> bit int support). The performance considerations should be minimal for
>>>>> non-legacy code (as both would still be using native data types)...
>>>>>
>>>> History shows that such gigantic patches are often not finished and done
>>>> as people underestimate the size of PHP and the fact that all etensions
>>>> have
>>>> to be checked which for this case means checking each external lib for
>>>> their
>>>> correct type for all their functions etc ... but I don't wan to stop
>>>> you,
>>>> I'm happy if you do this :-) (while I'm also happy about everybody
>>>> spending
>>>> time on fixing bugs instead of adding such high-risk changes  ;-))
>>>>
>>> Is it possible to use a static C analyzer here? It could help a lot. I
>>> think
>>> about Frama-C [1], Pork [2] (now included in Oink [3]) or Clang Static
>>> Analyser [4] to name a few. A more complete list can be found in [5].
>>>
>> We do it using Visual C++ static analyzer, which is an excellent tool
>> for this kind of issue, almost on all commits. As soon as we have a
>> fork for these changes I will add it so we can get regular updates.
>>
> Excellent!


Since Anthony is sadly gone, is there still something going on in this
direction?
Just fallen into a bug related to this with future DateTimes.... after
2038-01-19
03:14:07

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