Hello Andi,

  yes i don't see a reason for a change either.

marcus

Thursday, February 23, 2006, 3:02:46 AM, you wrote:

> I think int is fine for this and we don't need to be super-accurate 
> on the unsigned for string length. This is how we work today and it's 
> a big change for no real gain.

> At 01:15 AM 2/21/2006, Marcus Boerger wrote:
>>Hello Dmitry,
>>
>>Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 7:45:17 AM, you wrote:
>>
>> > I don't like int32_t because
>>
>> > 1) it is defined in ICU.
>>
>>   int32_t is defined in <stdint.h> by ansi c 89.
>>
>> > 2) I will need to rewrite a lot of existing functions to use 
>> int32_t instead
>> > of int.
>>
>>3) Both int and int32_t are wrong. The only correct choice would be size_t.
>>
>>best regards
>>marcus
>>
>> > Thanks. Dmitry.
>>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:26 AM
>> >> To: Andrei Zmievski; Dmitry Stogov
>> >> Cc: php-i18n@lists.php.net
>> >> Subject: Re: [PHP-I18N] Ideas for a portable string api
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Is there a reason why?
>> >> We usually just use int/uint almost anywhere... Then again I don't
>> >> really care because 32bit should be plenty (famous last
>> >> words) for strings....
>> >>
>> >> Andi
>> >>
>> >> At 10:16 PM 2/20/2006, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>> >> >I prefer to use fixed integer type, int32_t.
>> >> >
>> >> >-Andrei
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >On Feb 20, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Dmitry Stogov wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>Hi Andrei,
>> >> >>
>> >> >>We decide to use the same type for str.len (now int) and
>> >> ustr.len (now
>> >> >>int32_t, it comes from ICU).
>> >> >>
>> >> >>I prefer to make both of them - int.
>> >> >>Any reclaims? I plan to do it at Thursday.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Thanks. Dmitry.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>>-----Original Message-----
>> >> >>>From: Dmitry Stogov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> >>>Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:12 PM
>> >> >>>To: php-i18n@lists.php.net
>> >> >>>Subject: RE: [PHP-I18N] Ideas for a portable string api
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>Hi,
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>After reviewing Marcus ideas, some experiments and speaking with
>> >> >>>Andrei. I propose the following solutions:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>1) We will not use any kind of unicode literals in C code
>> >> (no L"foo"
>> >> >>>no "f\0o\0o\0\0"), Because L"" is not portable and "f\0.."
>> >> looks to
>> >> >>>ugly.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>2) We will change "zval" structure to make
>> >> "zval.value.str.len" and
>> >> >>>"zval.value.ustr.len" of the same type. This will allow optimize
>> >> >>>Z_UNISTR() and Z_UNILEN() macros. They will
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>#define Z_UNISTR(z)  ((void*)(Z_STRVAL(z)))
>> >> >>>#define Z_UNILEN(z)  ((void*)(Z_STRLEN(z)))
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>Instead of
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>#define Z_UNISTR(z)
>> >> >>>Z_TYPE(z)==IS_UNICODE?(char*)Z_USTRVAL(z):Z_STRVAL(z)
>> >> >>>#define Z_UNILEN(z)
>> >> >>>Z_TYPE(z)==IS_UNICODE?(int)Z_USTRLEN(z):Z_STRLEN(z)
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>3)  I don't like to break source compatibility with
>> >> modification of
>> >> >>>"zval" layout as Marcus suggested. We will pass
>> >> string/unicode values
>> >> >>>near in the same way as do today. As three values -
>> >> zend_uchar type,
>> >> >>>void* str, int len. But we will create a set of the
>> >> following macros
>> >> >>>to do it with less overhead.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>#define S_TYPE(x)               _type_##x
>> >> >>>#define S_UNIVAL(x)             _val_##x
>> >> >>>#define S_UNILEN(x)             _len_##x
>> >> >>>#define S_STRVAL(x)             ((char*)S_UNIVAL(x))
>> >> >>>#define S_USTRVAL(x)            ((UChar*)S_UNIVAL(x))
>> >> >>>#define S_STRLEN(x)             S_UNILEN(x)
>> >> >>>#define S_USTRLEN(x)            S_UNILEN(x)
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>#define S_ARG(x)                zend_uchar S_TYPE(x), void
>> >> >>>*S_UNIVAL(x), int
>> >> >>>S_UNILEN(x)
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>#define S_PASS(x)               S_TYPE(x), S_UNIVAL(x), S_UNILEN(x)
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>#define Z_STR_PASS(x)           Z_TYPE(x), Z_UNIVAL(x), Z_UNILEN(x)
>> >> >>>#define Z_STR_PASS_P(x) Z_TYPE_P(x), Z_UNIVAL_P(x),
>> >> >>>Z_UNILEN_P(x)
>> >> >>>#define Z_STR_PASS_PP(x)        Z_TYPE_PP(x), Z_UNIVAL_PP(x),
>> >> >>>Z_UNILEN_PP(x)
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>Then most zend_u_... Functions must be rewriten with these macros
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>Foe example:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>ZEND_API int zend_u_lookup_class(S_ARG(name),
>> >> zend_class_entry ***ce
>> >> >>>TSRMLS_DC)
>> >> >>>{
>> >> >>>         return zend_u_lookup_class_ex(S_PASS(name), 1, ce
>> >> >>>TSRMLS_CC); }
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>Instead of
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>ZEND_API int zend_u_lookup_class(zend_uchar type, void *name, int
>> >> >>>name_length, zend_class_entry ***ce TSRMLS_DC) {
>> >> >>>         return zend_u_lookup_class_ex(type, name,
>> >> name_length, 1, ce
>> >> >>>TSRMLS_CC); }
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>Any objections, additions?

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