Bug #74100 [NEW]: array_fill with negative $start_index works incorrectly

From: andrew dot nester dot dev at gmail dot com Operating system: Any PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Arrays related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:array_fill with negative $start_index works incorrectly Description: ------------ When we are using array_fill function with negative $start_index it produces wrong array result. As I see this is documented behaviour (http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-fill.php#function.array-fill.example.basic ). Also there is note in documentation: "See also the Arrays section of manual for a detailed explanation of negative keys." But there is no any information about negative keys in arrays and why it should work like this. We can support negative indexes in arrays now that's why it's better to make array_fill work as expected. Test script: --------------- var_dump(array_fill_keys(range(-2,1), true)); var_dump(array_fill(-2, 4, true)) Expected result: ---------------- array(4) { [-2]=> bool(true) [-1]=> bool(true) [0]=> bool(true) [1]=> bool(true) } array(4) { [-2]=> bool(true) [-1]=> bool(true) [0]=> bool(true) [1]=> bool(true) } Actual result: -------------- array(4) { [-2]=> bool(true) [-1]=> bool(true) [0]=> bool(true) [1]=> bool(true) } array(4) { [-2]=> bool(true) [0]=> bool(true) [1]=> bool(true) [2]=> bool(true) } -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74100&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74100&r=mysqlcfg