diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e25f3378ee1..7ab48013126 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
   . Fixed bug GH-8083 Segfault when dumping uncalled fake closure with static
     variables. (ilutov)
   . Fixed bug GH-7958 (Nested CallbackFilterIterator is leaking memory). (cmb)
+  . Fixed bug GH-8074 (Wrong type inference of range() result). (cmb)
 
 - GD:
   . Fixed libpng warning when loading interlaced images. (Brett)
diff --git a/Zend/Optimizer/zend_func_info.c b/Zend/Optimizer/zend_func_info.c
index 0218ae15940..16e09d8337d 100644
--- a/Zend/Optimizer/zend_func_info.c
+++ b/Zend/Optimizer/zend_func_info.c
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ static uint32_t zend_range_info(const zend_call_info *call_info, const zend_ssa
 				|| (t3 & (MAY_BE_DOUBLE|MAY_BE_STRING))) {
 			tmp |= MAY_BE_ARRAY_OF_DOUBLE;
 		}
-		if ((t1 & ((MAY_BE_ANY|MAY_BE_UNDEF)-(MAY_BE_STRING|MAY_BE_DOUBLE)))
-				&& (t2 & ((MAY_BE_ANY|MAY_BE_UNDEF)-(MAY_BE_STRING|MAY_BE_DOUBLE)))) {
+		if ((t1 & ((MAY_BE_ANY|MAY_BE_UNDEF)-MAY_BE_DOUBLE))
+				&& (t2 & ((MAY_BE_ANY|MAY_BE_UNDEF)-MAY_BE_DOUBLE))) {
 			if ((t3 & MAY_BE_ANY) != MAY_BE_DOUBLE) {
 				tmp |= MAY_BE_ARRAY_OF_LONG;
 			}
diff --git a/ext/opcache/tests/opt/gh8074.phpt b/ext/opcache/tests/opt/gh8074.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..86ec3449c47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/opcache/tests/opt/gh8074.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+--TEST--
+GH-8074 (Wrong type inference of range() result)
+--FILE--
+<?php
+function test() {
+    $array = range(1, "2");
+
+    foreach ($array as $i) {
+        var_dump($i + 1);
+    }
+}
+
+test();
+?>
+--EXPECT--
+int(2)
+int(3)