Re: Strange Right-Shift Problem

Curt Zirzow wrote:

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:34:35PM -0600, Richard Lynch wrote:

On Thu, December 29, 2005 5:37 pm, Michael Gross wrote:

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If you can determine the number of bits on your system, you could use a different number from 11 on the two systems to get the answer you want. if (is_32_bit_machine()){ $y = $x >> 11; } else{ $y = $x >> 43; //11 + 32 (guess) } One hack for detecting 32-bit machine might be this:

Isn't php suppose to handle all this? This seems odd to me.

I don't see how php can 'handle' people assuming that integers will always be 32bits - the php code in the encryption algorythm is flawed because it assumes that all integers are 32bits and doesn't platform wordsize (terminology?) into account - how can php know that this was not the intention?

Curt.