note 110800 added to function.strlen

Hi, I've noticed that strlen() will literally duplicate the amount of ram used up by the string wich length you want to know. example: $k = str_repeat("0",2147467264); sleep(10); #now go check your ram usage, should be by ~2.1Gbytes var_dump(strlen($k)); sleep(10); #now its up to ~4Gbytes! any ideas how to bypass this? ---- Server IP: 212.63.222.76 Probable Submitter: 2001:470:1f09:187b:3615:9eff:fe10:147e ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/110800 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110800/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110800/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110800/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110800/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110800/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110800/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110800 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/110800 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php