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levenshtein integer overflow

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Description

Description

The following code:

<?php
echo levenshtein('aa', 'ab', 1, PHP_INT_MAX, 1);

Resulted in this output:

-9223372036854775807

But I expected this output instead:

2

Also levenshtein(str_repeat('a', 100000), str_repeat('b', 1000000), 1, PHP_INT_MAX - 500000, 1)

returning unexpected -9223372036854625811

PHP Version

any

Operating System

any 64-bit

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the two levenshtein examples from the issue on a 64-bit system and inspect the implementation and existing tests for levenshtein. Trace how large insertion, replacement, and deletion costs are handled, then add regression coverage showing the expected result of 2 without integer overflow.

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Tech stack
php
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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