Bug 700724

Summary: var_export on negative array indexes returns unsigned index id
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Patrick Uecker <patrick>
Component: php53Assignee: Joe Orton <jorton>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Description Patrick Uecker 2011-04-29 08:32:09 UTC 
Description of problem:

in php code having a negative array index - e.g. $dummy[-2]=123; - and using
var_export($dummy,true) returns 2*MAXINT-1 as index id

further details listed here: http://bugs.php.net/52534

This bug is fixed in php itself.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
CentOS 5.5 and 5.6

php.x86_64  5.1.6-27.el5_5.3  
php53.x8664 5.3.3-1.el5_6.1


How reproducible:
<?php

$dummy[-2]=123;
echo  "<br>";
echo var_export($dummy,true);
echo "<br>";

?>


Steps to Reproduce:
1. put php file on server
2. open it
3.

Actual results:
array ( 18446744073709551614 => 123, )

Expected results:
array ( -2=> 123, )

Additional info:
works fine with php.x86_64 5.1.6-27.el5
Comment 1 Joe Orton 2011-07-16 15:36:45 UTC 
Thanks for the report.
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-21 06:38:18 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0266.html