Re: Different binary results with different PHP versions

Yes, I have read the manual and notes below the manual. But actually, I
don't need exactly the decbin function. I have used that just to show
something going wrong. My point is the ^ operator. For ex, look at the
following code and its outputs:

echo (1 ^ -5817441119);
// Prints -1522473824 which is true result, at PHP 5.1.2 + Windows
// Prints -2147483647 which is false result, at PHP 4.4.2 + Linux

I also thought that the reason is that the number is too small, but why
PHP 5 calculates correctly? Is there a big difference in number types
between PHP 4 and PHP 5? I don't know if it helps but when I checked
PHP_INT_MAX, it is 2147483647 for both.

Erwin Moller wrote:
Skeleton wrote:

I am using Windows XP + PHP 5.1.2 at home for development and using
Linux + PHP 4.4.2 at server side. In my code, I am doing some bitwise
operations. While doing this, I have come accross to different results
from my functions that uses bitwise xor (^) operator. When I digg into
the code, I have tried to print out the binary of a decimal number. The
result was so:

echo decbin(-5817441119);
// Prints 10100101010000001110010010100001 at local (PHP 5.1.2)
// Prints 10000000000000000000000000000000 at server (PHP 4.4.2)

Is this a bug? How can I workaround this problem? Thanks.

Hi,

Did you read the Fine Manual?
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.decbin.php

says:
string decbin ( int number )
----------------
Returns a string containing a binary representation of the given number
argument. The largest number that can be converted is 4294967295 in decimal
resulting to a string of 32 1's.
----------------

Your number is bigger, or actually smaller. ;-)

Read the usercontributed notes for details and solutions.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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