Summary

abs(PHP_INT_MIN) cannot be represented as an int – it overflows to the float 9.223372036854776E+18. PHPStan already knew this for constant operands (#6028), but abs() of a non-constant int was still inferred as int<0, max>. That made WordPress core's absint()

function absint( $maybeint ): int {
	return abs( (int) $maybeint );
}

look correct even though it fatals on PHP_INT_MIN (Trac 65826).

abs() and unary minus now include the overflow float whenever the operand's type can hold PHP_INT_MIN, so the missing return-type error is reported.

Changes

• src/Type/IntegerType.php – toAbsoluteNumber() returns int<0, max>|9.223372036854776E+18.
• src/Type/IntegerRangeType.php – toAbsoluteNumber() unions the overflow float when the range can hold PHP_INT_MIN (unbounded lower bound, or min === PHP_INT_MIN), and returns the float on its own for the range that holds nothing but PHP_INT_MIN. The remaining integers can only reach PHP_INT_MAX, so the integer part of the result is unchanged.
• src/Reflection/InitializerExprTypeResolver.php – getUnaryMinusType() applies the same overflow to -$x for non-constant integer operands (the analogous case; constants were already handled). The now-unnecessary /** @var int|float */ in getUnaryMinusTypeFromType() was removed along with its phpstan-baseline.neon entry.
• src/Type/Constant/ConstantIntegerType.php – toAbsoluteNumber() now branches on is_int(abs($this->value)) instead of comparing against PHP_INT_MIN. The old comment said that form was dead code to PHPStan itself; it no longer is, which doubles as a self-check of this fix.
• tests/PHPStan/Command/ErrorFormatter/BaselineNeonErrorFormatterTest.php – documented $expectedNewlinesCount as int<0, max>, which is what the data provider supplies; -($count + 1) is otherwise correctly reported as possibly overflowing.

Analogous cases probed:

• Fixed: unary minus -$x on int, int<min, N>, negative-int, ?int and unions containing them.
• Already correct, left alone: abs()/negation of int<0, max>, positive-int, int<-5, 5> and every other range excluding PHP_INT_MIN; unary plus; FloatType, ConstantFloatType, StringType, array and object types (their toAbsoluteNumber() cannot produce the overflow); UnionType/IntersectionType, which just delegate; first-class-callable / array_map('abs', …) paths, which go through the same Type::toAbsoluteNumber().
• Deliberately not changed: $x * -1, $x + $y, $x - $y on unbounded ints. PHPStan does not model integer overflow for binary arithmetic at all, and doing so would turn every int arithmetic expression into float|int. Unary minus and abs() are different: a single input value overflows and the resulting type stays precise.

Root cause

Type::toAbsoluteNumber() and unary minus modelled negation as a total function on integers. It is not: -PHP_INT_MIN is the one input whose result does not fit in an int. The previous fix handled it only where the value was known exactly (ConstantIntegerType), and IntegerRangeType::toAbsoluteNumber() explicitly approximated the overflow away by treating abs(PHP_INT_MIN) as "unbounded int" (see the comment removed in this PR). Everything reachable through an unbounded or PHP_INT_MIN-anchored integer type therefore lost the float.

The fix pushes the overflow into the three places that can produce it – IntegerType::toAbsoluteNumber(), IntegerRangeType::toAbsoluteNumber() and InitializerExprTypeResolver::getUnaryMinusType() – and keeps them in agreement about the boundary: the overflow is included exactly when PHP_INT_MIN is a possible value, and excluded from PHP_INT_MIN + 1 upwards.

Test

• tests/PHPStan/Analyser/data/abs-64bit.php – the reported reproducer abs((int) $maybeint), plus the boundary: int<-9223372036854775808, …> includes the float while int<-9223372036854775807, …> does not, and int<min, -9223372036854775808> (which collapses to a single value) is the float alone.
• tests/PHPStan/Analyser/data/unary-minus-64bit.php – the analogous unary-minus cases: -$int, -((int) $s), int<min, 5>, the PHP_INT_MIN + 1 boundary, plus int<0, max>, int<-5, 5> and unary plus as negative controls.
• tests/PHPStan/Rules/Functions/data/bug-15069.php + ReturnTypeRuleTest::testBug15069() – the end-to-end consequence: function absint($maybeint): int { return abs((int) $maybeint); } and function negate(int $i): int { return -$i; } are now reported, while the guarded and bounded-range variants are not.
• Updated existing expectations in nsrt/abs.php, nsrt/binary.php, nsrt/integer-range-types.php, nsrt/bug-9224b.php and Fiber/data/fnsr.php, which were asserting the old approximated types.

Both new tests were verified to fail without the src/ changes.

Fixes phpstan/phpstan#15069