"Casting out of range floats to int" applies to strings

[bwoebi]

Description

The following code:

<?php var_dump((int) "9999999999999999999");

Resulted in this output:

PHP Warning:  The float-string "9999999999999999999" is not representable as an int, cast occurred in Command line code on line 1
int(9223372036854775807)

But I expected this output instead:

int(9223372036854775807)

I just updated to PHP 8.5.0 and surprisingly started seeing these warnings.

This was added with https://wiki.php.net/rfc/warnings-php-8-5#casting_out_of_range_floats_to_int, which explicitly talked about warning on non-representable floats. Not about strings. (I see the UPGADING entry got the or strings that look like floats added. But the RFC, what was voted on, does not.)

Now, e.g. (int) "a" is fine emitting 0 as expected ... but once that string is something looking like a number, it suddenly emits a warning.
This is especially problematic when accepting arbitrary user input like (int) ($_POST['value'] ?? 0).

I strongly object to this behaviour on strings - on floats, it's fine (and was voted on).

PHP Version

PHP 8.5.0

Operating System

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[bwoebi]

Opened #20746 with a fix.