ID: 16366
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Status: Closed
+Status: Open
-Bug Type: Math related
+Bug Type: Documentation problem
Operating System: WinXP
PHP Version: 4.1.2
New Comment:
are you sure? there is already a bunch of reports on "floating-point
bugs" in PHP. That's why I didn't reopen it.
Previous Comments:
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[2002-03-31 13:38:51] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well I have 200 groups of 64 on/off's.. I can name the 200 bigint
groups but there is no way in hell I am going to name 12,800 bools, not
to mention that they would take up 8x more space in the database.. Each
group has the same structure - somebody needs to write a DB that uses
structures as custom fields. This may be the way they work but this is
ancient design - I was surprised as hell when I started learning MySQL
and realized that they are still doing things this way. But anyway.
Now I am thinking "char binary" since it can be fixed size, but the
documentation on PHP's conversions of MySQL is sparse. If someone
would like to pursue this in private email please write.
The original bug was about bit shifting, which I don't think would
involve a conversion to float.. unless PHP is doing something weird.
It looks like someone is just not expecting a shift greater than 32.
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[2002-03-31 13:27:30] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good point. Reopening as documentation problem.
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[2002-03-31 13:23:52] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Related to the bug only:
<?php
$int=2;
for($i=25;$i<33;$i++)
{
$check=pow($int, $i);
$check2=(int)$check;
$check2 += 1;
$check3=(int)$check;
$check3 -= 1;
echo("i is $i\n");
var_dump($check);
var_dump($check2);
var_dump($check3);
echo("\n");
}
?>
Gives some weird results:
$ ./test_float_conversion.php
i is 25
int(33554432)
int(33554433)
int(33554431)
i is 26
int(67108864)
int(67108865)
int(67108863)
i is 27
int(134217728)
int(134217729)
int(134217727)
i is 28
int(268435456)
int(268435457)
int(268435455)
i is 29
int(536870912)
int(536870913)
int(536870911)
i is 30
int(1073741824)
int(1073741825)
int(1073741823)
i is 31
float(2147483648)
int(-2147483647)
float(-2147483649)
i is 32
float(4294967296)
int(1)
int(-1)
I guess the manual should be appended, in the 'typecasting' section, to
not cast to integer, when it's larger than 2^30 and that those numbers
are automatically converted to floats.
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php#language.types.typecasting)
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[2002-03-31 13:10:38] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can you please stop this discussion in the bug system. Fighting about
what is best can be done in private mail just fine.
Derick
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[2002-03-31 13:09:00] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm sorry, but this is not flipcode.com - this is web-development.
Not performance, but maintaineability and readability are crucial.
Always write your code in a way someone else could easily understand
what you are trying to do (even if you'll never release your
sourcecode).
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