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Bug #40894 fix for bug #38770 causes more harm than good on big-endian 64bit
Submitted: 2007-03-22 15:59 UTC Modified: 2007-04-03 21:59 UTC
From: mmarek at suse dot cz Assigned: iliaa (profile)
Status: Closed Package: *Programming Data Structures
PHP Version: 5.2.1 OS:
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 [2007-03-22 15:59 UTC] mmarek at suse dot cz
Description:
------------
Fix for bug #38770 breaks unpack() on big-endian 64bit, because it reads uninitialized memory or memory that doesn't relate to the data being processed.

In http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/pack.c?r1=1.62&r2=1.63

input[inputpos + machine_endian_long_map[3]] will read input[inputpos+7] when unpacking 4 bytes.

Please revert the fix, as it tries to fix a questionable issue (-30000 simply doesn't fit into unsigned type) and causes trouble in cases where it worked before (eg. pear is not even installable on POWER, b/c install-pear-nozlib.phar makes heavy use of unpack()).

Reproduce code:
---------------
run

  print_r( unpack( "V", pack( "V", 200 ) ));

several times on ppc64.

Expected result:
----------------
It should output

Array
(
    [1] => 200
)

all the time.

Actual result:
--------------
# ./sapi/cli/php -r 'print_r( unpack( "V", pack( "V", 200 ) ));'
Array
(
    [1] => 200
)
# ./sapi/cli/php -r 'print_r( unpack( "V", pack( "V", 200 ) ));'
Array
(
    [1] => -2147483448
)
# ./sapi/cli/php -r 'print_r( unpack( "V", pack( "V", 200 ) ));'
Array
(
    [1] => 200
)
# ./sapi/cli/php -r 'print_r( unpack( "V", pack( "V", 200 ) ));'
Array
(
    [1] => 200
)
# ./sapi/cli/php -r 'print_r( unpack( "V", pack( "V", 200 ) ));'
Array
(
    [1] => -2147483448
)


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