So, should we go ahead and change it to 'long' then? The existing code
would be affected of course..
On Thu, 04 Jul 2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> It sounds like changing API (int -> long) is better to me.
> _zvalue_value.lval's type is long also.
>
> --
> Yasuo Ohgaki
>
> Sascha Schumann wrote:
> >sas Wed Jul 3 14:36:50 2002 EDT
> >
> > Modified files:
> > /php4 README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API
> > Log:
> > Please note that you need to use 'int' as a length type when
> > fetching strings.
> >
> >
> >Index: php4/README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API
> >diff -u php4/README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API:1.4
> >php4/README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API:1.5
> >--- php4/README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API:1.4 Wed Jul 3 10:01:18 2002
> >+++ php4/README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API Wed Jul 3 14:36:50 2002
> >@@ -105,7 +105,14 @@
> > /* Get either a set of 3 longs or a string. */
> > long l1, l2, l3;
> > char *s;
> >-long length;
> >+/*
> >+ * The function expects a pointer to a integer in this case, not a long
> >+ * or any other type. If you specify a type which is larger
> >+ * than a 'int', the upper bits might not be initialized
> >+ * properly, leading to random crashes on platforms like
> >+ * Tru64 or Linux/Alpha.
> >+ */
> >+int length;
> >
> > if (zend_parse_parameters_ex(ZEND_PARSE_PARAMS_QUIET, ZEND_NUM_ARGS()
> > TSRMLS_CC,
> > "lll", &l1, &l2,
> > &l3) == SUCCESS) {
> >
> >
>
>
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