… on 32-bit platforms only! PHP int size is platform-dependent, and it seems to be 8 bytes on our 64-bit boxes. Yes, the very same ones where C/C++ int is 4 bytes, you know. That was the easy part. It was… no native 64-bit integer type in PHP. Let me remind that built-in “int” might be 64-bit, but then again…

…php.net/manual/en/function.pack.php) as they allow you using machine dependent formats: i signed integer (machine dependent size and byte… For example, try on php -r “var_dump(unserialize(‘i:234444444444444344;’));” It will return either int(234444444444444344) or int(-424884552) depending on …