The four scalar conversions are lowered to a single-argument Native cast
by dispatchConversion, which reads args[0] and ignores the rest. intval()
takes a $base as its second argument, so it was silently discarded:
intval("ff", 16); // php::toInt("ff") -> 0, PHP gives 255
intval("0x1A", 16); // php::toInt("0x1A") -> 0, PHP gives 26
intval("101", 2); // php::toInt("101") -> 101, PHP gives 5
Nothing reports the loss: the program compiles clean and the number is
simply wrong, which is easy to miss in the code that most often uses a
base - parsing hex colors, permission masks and binary flags.
A conversion call with any arity other than one now falls through to the
dynamic path, where both arguments are passed to the runtime function.
Single-argument intval(), strval(), floatval() and boolval() keep their
Native cast, so the common case is unchanged.
type_conv.phpt gains the base cases, with a literal and a variable base;
none of them were covered anywhere in the test suite. ConversionArityTest
pins the lowering decision in the generated C++.
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