Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53045&edit=1
ID: 53045
User updated by: remy at wh dot nl
Reported by: remy at wh dot nl
Summary: broken result of intval()
Status: Open
Type: Bug
Package: *Math Functions
Operating System: FreeBSD
PHP Version: 5.2.14
Block user comment: N
New Comment:
Ok, php 5.2.12 gives the same (broken) result...
Previous Comments:
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[2010-10-13 09:30:55] remy at wh dot nl
[r...@xxx]~> cc -o a.test a.c -lm
[r...@xxx]~> ./a.test
2.9999999999999996
I'm not entirely sure, but I did not notice this problem in 5.2.12.
I'll try to recompile 5.2.12 to see if the problem occurred too...
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[2010-10-13 09:00:14] ras...@php.net
Not sure there is a whole lot we can do about this. It is a typical
IEEE-754
precision problem. Try this simple C program, for example:
[a.c]
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
printf("%.16f\n",log(8) / log(2));
}
LDFLAGS=-lm make a
./a
I get: 3.0000000000000000
I bet you get 2.9999999999999996
or something along those lines.
We might be able to do something clever with PHP's precision setting
internally
and round to that precision before doing the truncation there, but in
reality
you are dealing with floating point numbers here and whenever you deal
with
floating point numbers when programming you have to treat them as
approximations, never as exact values. Unless you are using arbitrary
precision
functions such as the gmp or bcmath function (which are orders of
magnitude
slower) you are going to have to account for these imprecisions in your
code.
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[2010-10-13 08:38:16] remy at wh dot nl
php -i output:
phpinfo()
PHP Version => 5.2.14
System => FreeBSD xxx.xxx.com 7.3-STABLE FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE #7: Thu Jul
15 20:09:49 CEST 2010 r...@xxx.xxx.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/XXX
i386
Build Date => Sep 22 2010 20:07:20
Configure Command => './configure' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/lib'
'--with-config-file-path=/home/www/php' '--with-zlib' '--with-mysql'
'--with-pgsql' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-mbstring'
'--with-apxs2=/home/www/bin/apxs' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd'
'--enable-mbregex' '--enable-gd-native-ttf'
'--with-png-dir=/usr/local/lib' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib'
'--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6/lib' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib'
'--with-iconv' '--with-curl' '--with-bz2'
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[2010-10-13 08:33:34] remy at wh dot nl
var_dump( unpack("H*",pack("d", 3.0000)) );
var_dump( unpack("H*",pack("d", log(8,2))) );
array(1) {
[1]=>
string(16) "0000000000000840"
}
array(1) {
[1]=>
string(16) "ffffffffffff0740"
}
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[2010-10-13 05:25:02] cataphr...@php.net
I can't reproduce on mipsel/32-bit/Linux, PHP 5.2.14.
Can you show us the result of this:
<?php
var_dump( unpack("H*",pack("d", 3.0000)) );
var_dump( unpack("H*",pack("d", log(8,2))) );
I get
array(1) {
[1]=>
string(16) "0000000000000840"
}
array(1) {
[1]=>
string(16) "0000000000000840"
}
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