Bug #80701 [NEW]: NaN equals NaN in arrays, if two arrays have the same identity

From: riikka dot kalliomaki at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: 8.0.1 Package: Arrays related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:NaN equals NaN in arrays, if two arrays have the same identity Description: ------------ TL;DR; "$a = $b = [NAN]; [NAN] !== [NAN] && $a === $b". PHP arrays don't officially have an identity. However, for optimization PHP uses copy on write for arrays so two arrays can have the same "identity" when, for example, an array is assigned to another variable. For optimization, when using the strict comparison operator "===", PHP checks if the identity of two arrays is same to quickly return true in those cases. I mean, one would expect that two arrays that point to the same thing would be strictly equal. However, this assumption is not true for NaN, i.e. [NAN] !== [NAN]. But, if you first assign the [NAN] to a variable, it can equal itself, if two arrays have the same identity. Based on https://3v4l.org/gHjG0, this seems have been introduced in 5.3.15 / 5.4.5 I would consider this behavior to be a bug, but I'm not sure whether it is worth fixing since that could have non negligible performance impact. I did not run into this bug in actual code and simply realized it through personal musing. Thus, at least I don't personally consider fixing it important. Test script: --------------- <?php $NaN = sqrt(-1); var_dump($NaN === $NaN); var_dump(array($NaN) === array($NaN)); $a = array($NaN); $b = $a; var_dump($a === $b); reset($b); var_dump($a === $b); Expected result: ---------------- bool(false) bool(false) bool(false) bool(false) Actual result: -------------- bool(false) bool(false) bool(true) bool(false) -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80701&edit=1 -- Fix committed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=globals PHP version support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=phptooold Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80701&r=mysqlcfg