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bug #60497: Unable to pass int64 values to oct interface reliably

Submitter:  Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
Submitted:  Sun 02 May 2021 01:41:57 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Interpreter Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Inaccurate Result
Status:  Confirmed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sun 02 May 2021 09:03:24 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I haven't checked to be sure, but I suspect that the int64_value function is something that existed before integer values were added to the octave_value data type.  We should probably look at deprecating and removing all the functions that are defined with the INT_CONV_MEDTHOD macro in ov-base.cc short_value, ushort_value, int_value, uint_value, long_value, ulong_value, int64_value, uint64_value.

John W. Eaton <jwe>
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Sun 02 May 2021 05:40:16 PM UTC, comment #1: 

OK I cannot say that I understand the logic, but at least I found a way to have it work using "int64_scalar_value" rather than "int64_value". The latter is a generic "static_cast<int64> (octave_value::double_value ())" and leads to corrupted data due to the intermediate conversion to double.

Now I wonder why we need both methods?

Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
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Sun 02 May 2021 01:41:57 PM UTC, original submission:  

Consider the following oct file that just tries to parse an int64 argument and show it value:


DEFUN_DLD(show_int64, args, nargout,
          "-*- texinfo -*-\n\
@deftypefn {} {@var{out} =} ping_int64 (@var{in})\n\
@seealso{}\n\
@end deftypefn")
{
  int nargin = args.length ();

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();

  int64_t out = args(0).xint64_value ("IN should be a scalar int64 val");

  octave_stdout << out << std::endl;

  return ovl ();
}


Here is what I obtain when using this function:

octave:1> a = intmax ("int64")
a = 9223372036854775807
octave:2> show_int64 (a)
-9223372036854775808


See related discussion on the discourse forum:

https://octave.discourse.group/t/how-to-safely-use-int64-type/1096

Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
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file #51356:  show_int64.cc added by pantxo (1KiB - text/x-c++src)

 

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