ID: 51073
User updated by: jian at theorchard dot com
Reported By: jian at theorchard dot com
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: Linux RHEL 5
PHP Version: 5.3.1
New Comment:
As I had previously said, forget it because it's platform related
issue not PHP's fault. I was trying to say it would be nice if the
end user didn't need to do this kind of re-formatting. It would
nice the function acts as a black box. That's all. Thank you all
for replying to my post. And I feel very sorry to have wasted all
of you time on this stupidity. At least my boss was very
understanding what I had to deal with. Please close this ticket.
I'm not going to post anything more here. Thank you.
Previous Comments:
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[2010-02-19 13:39:56] ras...@php.net
But, like I said there is nothing to do here. We have to return the
exact bits. Anything we do other than that will cause all sorts of
chaos and confusion. So I don't understand what you are asking for, A
new datatype in PHP for this? That's not going to happen obviously.
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[2010-02-19 13:36:39] paj...@php.net
Not too hard to understand that PHP has no unsigned integer type.
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[2010-02-19 13:33:47] jian at theorchard dot com
Did you not read my previous post? That's the same exactly function I
have already posted. Yes, it is very stupid to have to do that on the
user's end.
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[2010-02-19 05:15:56] ras...@php.net
Why can't you always use a signed checksum if that is what you want?
crc32 simply returns 32 bits. You always get the same 32 bits
regardless of the platform. If you want to always represent that as a
signed 32-bit integer, then do so. The fact that some platforms have
the ability to show those 32 bits without messing up the sign is
irrelevant. Just emulate it with something stupidly simple like:
$max32 = 2147483648;
$crc = crc32("884385799717_1_1");
if($crc>$max32-1) {
$crc = $crc-2*$max32;
}
echo $crc;
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[2010-02-19 04:20:00] jian at theorchard dot com
All I was saying is to point out that crc32 function is unable to
return the same result represented in the same way under any different
platforms.
The documentation does say to use sprintf function to format the result
to be an unsigned integer in order to the get same expected result from
all platforms.
In the real world, we actually do need to use signed checksum in some
cases. So with this shortcoming in mind, crc32 function cannot achieve
a truly signed checksum purpose.
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