Posted by Skeleton on 05/31/06 16:46

So what should I do at this point? I need to make XOR operations with
such big(small) numbers.
Chung Leong wrote:
> Skeleton wrote:
> > My PHP 5.1.2 is on Windows. So the problem is about the Operating
> > Systems.
> >
> > David Haynes wrote:
> > > Be careful of your base assumptions. php 5.1.2 on Linux produces
> > > -2147483647 as well.
> > >
> > > -david-
>
> No, it's difference is in the compiler. The operation you describe
> causes a double-to-long-integer conversion overflow. Gcc probably
> throws in a check which sets the value to the integer boundary whereas
> MS Visual C just lets it wrap around.

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