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Bug #75664 sprintf %u results in 0 for numbers with more digits than PHP_INT_MAX
Submitted: 2017-12-10 23:35 UTC Modified: 2017-12-11 22:25 UTC
From: erik at evanv dot nl Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 7.2.0 OS: linux 4.14.4
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2017-12-10 23:35 UTC] erik at evanv dot nl 
Description:
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Code speaks for itself. This can lead to data corruption.

A decent solution would be to display unknown least significant digits as 0 just like %f.

Alternative would be an ArithmeticError.

Test script:
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php > $var = PHP_INT_MAX * 2;
php > echo sprintf("%f", $var);
18446744073709551616.000000
php > echo sprintf("%u", $var);
0

Expected result:
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18446744073709551616

Actual result:
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0

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 [2017-12-11 15:25 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2017-12-11 15:25 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Actually, this boils down to `(int) (PHP_INT_MAX*2)` being
undefined[1], so this is not a bug.

[1] <http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php#language.types.integer.casting.from-float>
 [2017-12-11 19:47 UTC] erik at evanv dot nl 
I hope you can consider adding an error for this. Silently overflowing to zero is not something you expect to be possible in a managed language. 

This behavior caused data corruption in my company's product. I was certain it was caused by a C program we were using but to my surprise it was this.
 [2017-12-11 22:25 UTC] cmb@php.net 
I have to admit that the present behavior is not optimal.
However, changing it would require the RFC process.  Feel free to
start it; see <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/howto>.
 
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