[2007-02-16 00:47 UTC] mchenryc at gmail dot com

Description:
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json_encode converts integers to string in a different way than PHP's integer to string conversion (at least on win32). PHP appears to either handle unsigned values, or use more bits to encode integers, where as json_encode converts them to floats, causing rounding errors.


Reproduce code:
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function show_eq($x,$y) {
  echo "$x ". ($x==$y ? "==" : "!=") ." $y\n";
}

$value = 0x7FFFFFFF; #2147483647;
show_eq("$value", json_encode($value));
$value++;
show_eq("$value", json_encode($value));


Expected result:
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2147483647 == 2147483647
2147483648 == 2147483648

Which shows both functions handling unsigned (or "long") integers.

Or:

2147483647 == 2147483647
2147483650 == 2147483650

Which shows both functions converting to a float with less precision.


Actual result:
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2147483647 == 2147483647
2147483648 != 2147483650

My code makes use of the "long" or "unsigned" (not sure what's actually happening) ability of PHP for unix timestamps, which I would dearly love to see stay.  The real issue is that the two functions behave in different ways, and should not.

 [2007-02-18 16:55 UTC] iliaa@php.net

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.