Re: Zend engine bug
GS>> It cannot do this since l (zval.value.lval) is signed. This also means
GS>> that other functions using using zendi_convert_to_long() are
GS>> busted: modulus and rest of the bitwise implementation.
Oh, that's an old weird story. In short, we have two contradicting
requirements:
1. We have 'long' type, which is signed long
2. We have requirement to support 32-bit values, such as IP addresses, and
bit-wise operations with them.
The result is that hack - otherwise (like, if we promoted this to floats,
as, for example, arythmetic operators do) you could not handle 32-bit
values in no way in the long.
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer
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