[2007-09-01 18:10 UTC] jr-php2 at quo dot to

Description:
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On 64-bit platforms, ip2long() returns a positive result for IP addresses >= 128.0.0.0. This is expected.

However, there is *one* case in which it will return a negative result: when the specified address is 255.255.255.255.

This inconsistency doesn't make sense. Yes, the documentation does say that ip2long() returns -1 for 255.255.255.255, but that should only be the case on 32-bit platforms, where all addresses >= 128.0.0.0 return a negative result.

Reproduce code:
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echo "ip2long('255.255.255.254') = ", ip2long('255.255.255.254'), "\n";
echo "ip2long('255.255.255.255') = ", ip2long('255.255.255.255'), "\n";

Expected result:
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ip2long('255.255.255.254') = 4294967294
ip2long('255.255.255.255') = 4294967295

Actual result:
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ip2long('255.255.255.254') = 4294967294
ip2long('255.255.255.255') = -1

 [2007-09-01 18:38 UTC] derick@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
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