On Tue, 21 May 2019, 06:42 Scott Dutton, <sc...@exussum.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Not sure if I can add and example to the RFC at this point, but I came
> across another example of this recently.
>
>
> https://gist.github.com/iansltx/4820b02ab276c3306314daaa41573445#file-getlines-php-L9
>
>      // bindec() was doing weird things, hence converting through hex
> first
>      // sttrev() to match endian-ness to expectations; zip file values
> are little-endian
>      $compressedSize = hexdec(bin2hex(strrev(fread($stream, 4)))); //
> compressed size
>
> bindec was returning 0 without warning, as it was passed binary data
> not a binary string. No warning bin2hex actually does the correct
> translation.
>
> a warning here would have at least indicated there was something wrong
> with the input it was being passed instead of just 0.
>
> Thanks
>
> Scott
>
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Until the RFC is in voting you can still make amendments to it.
So feel free to add these functions/examples to the RFC.

Best regards

George Peter Banyard

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