PHP :: Request #73912 :: provides "long double"

Request #73912	provides "long double"
Submitted:	2017-01-11 02:56 UTC	Modified:	2017-01-11 20:19 UTC
From:	winbill at hotmail dot com	Assigned:
Status:	Wont fix	Package:	*General Issues
PHP Version:	Next Major Version	OS:	Linux
Private report:	No	CVE-ID:	None

[2017-01-11 02:56 UTC] winbill at hotmail dot com

Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.floatval
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I need to deal with precision higher than double.
C/C++ provides long double, with gcc on linux, most negative value of a long double is 3.362103E-4932, and max value of a long double is 1.189731E+4932.

I hope PHP provides "long double" in the coming version.

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[2017-01-11 03:20 UTC] requinix@php.net

-Status: Open +Status: Suspended -Package: PHP Language Specification +Package: *General Issues

[2017-01-11 03:20 UTC] requinix@php.net

A change like this would require an RFC. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/howto

In the meantime you can use bc. http://php.net/bc

[2017-01-11 20:19 UTC] bwoebi@php.net

-Status: Suspended +Status: Wont fix

[2017-01-11 20:19 UTC] bwoebi@php.net

This isn't necessarily the kind of change which would require a RFC…

I'm rather going to close this as Won't fix (at least taking the current engine into account). It'd basically have the consequence that we'd end up needing 24 bytes for zvals instead of 16, just for this little rarely needed feature.
That's in real world an increase of at least 15% in memory.

Which is not sustainable. Instead, better propose a custom object which allows manipulation of long doubles. (like GMP, where you can also use mathematical operators etc.)

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