Re: PHP 5.2.1RC2 Released

Tom Sommer wrote: > On Fri, January 5, 2007 01:13, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > >> With this release we are nearing the final stretch is the release >> cycle, so I'd like to ask all developers to refrain from making any commits >> to the 5.2 tree that are not bug fixes. If all goes well the final RC >> (RC3) will be available in 2 weeks to be shortly followed by >> the final release. > > Any word on bug #36008, is it fixed? > > It's pretty nasty for people running accounting and financially critical > applications. How is that a bug? Floating point values need to be sanitized before you do any sort of calculation with them or you will be magnifying any system-level imprecision. In that example he sanitized it by converting it to a string which isn't magic, it is just another way to truncate the imprecision. Any decent accounting/financial application should be working in integers (as in cents) and should never run into these issues. There is nothing we can do to fix this. -Rasmus