Changes to `int` handling

Invalid octal literals

Previously, octal literals that contained invalid numbers were silently truncated (0128 was taken as 012). Now, an invalid octal literal will cause a parse error.

Negative bitshifts

Bitwise shifts by negative numbers will now throw an ArithmeticError:

<?php
var_dump(1 >> -1);
?>

   

int(0)

Fatal error: Uncaught ArithmeticError: Bit shift by negative number in /tmp/test.php:2
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in /tmp/test.php on line 2

Out of range bitshifts

Bitwise shifts (in either direction) beyond the bit width of an int will always result in 0. Previously, the behaviour of such shifts was architecture dependent.

Changes to Division By Zero

Previously, when 0 was used as the divisor for either the divide (/) or modulus (%) operators, an E_WARNING would be emitted and false would be returned. Now, the divide operator returns a float as either +INF, -INF, or NAN, as specified by IEEE 754. The modulus operator E_WARNING has been removed and will throw a DivisionByZeroError exception.

<?php
var_dump(3/0);
var_dump(0/0);
var_dump(0%0);
?>

   

Warning: Division by zero in %s on line %d
bool(false)

Warning: Division by zero in %s on line %d
bool(false)

Warning: Division by zero in %s on line %d
bool(false)

Warning: Division by zero in %s on line %d
float(INF)

Warning: Division by zero in %s on line %d
float(NAN)

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught DivisionByZeroError: Modulo by zero in %s line %d