Hi,

The patch in attachment implements S_ARG(...) and related macroses.
However I don't like to commit it. Because code isn't more clear with these
macroses and it is harder to debug.
I prefer stay API as is.

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?
> 
> Thanks. Dmitry.
> 
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