Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Integer Semantics

[email protected] (Andrea Faulds)
Newsgroups php.internals
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 20 Aug 2014, at 03:53, Laruence <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Andrea Faulds <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Good evening,
>> 
>> I have made an RFC which would make some small changes to how integers are handled, targeted at PHP 7:
>> 
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/integer_semantics
> 
> I'd like don't change the works behavior.  make it act the similar as C does.

For some of these things the behaviour is explicitly undefined in C, meaning it’s dangerous for us not to handle them specially, as undefined behaviour seems to give compilers an unlimited license to do absolutely anything at all.

The rest are “implementation-defined”. While what C does “works”, I’d rather we do one thing consistently instead of forcing developers to deal with the kinds of platform and compiler differences tools like PHP should be abstracting.
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Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/
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