Fab Wash wrote: > Hello all, > > i'm trying to port php on a Nonstop Kernel system (Tandem/Compaq > OSS/Posix compliant), and have a few questions to start with. I'm just > trying to get it to compile (which is not a simple task!), and notice an > enormous amount of bad casting in the code. For example: > > int joe = (ulong) *p; > > Is that kind of coding historically bad coding that was never changed,
I totally agree. We need to clean up type usage and casting mess. > or is there a reason behind this? Just a historical reason, I suppose. You can use compiler option to surpress warnings for now, I guess. > Also, who has control of the configure.in file? If I wanted to setup > configure internal options for my system who should I contact? Send patch to php-dev. No single person is controlling it. AFAIK. > And last question, is there a suite of QA tests that a new version of > php must go through before being approved? It's not perfect nor complete, please read README.TESTING. Please make sure you read README.CVS-RULES, CODING_STANDARDS, README.SUBMITTING_PATCH and other documents. And most importantly, please work with HEAD branch. We'll ask patch for it anyway. -- Yasuo Ohgaki -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
