[horde] php-4.4.0 woes

[Graeme Wood]

Most of these reference problems are fixed in 3.0.5-RC2.  I submitted some
more to the Horde team over the weekend and they have also been fixed and
I would imagine will appear shortly in 3.0.5-RC3.

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Joeri Pronk wrote:

> Most of the problems are with using a & before a function call:
> $ref = &this_function_returns_a_reference();
>
> Only thing that needs to be done is to remove the & before the function
> call. The function is defined as to return a reference, in this case
> older PHP versions would try to reference the reference which could
> cause the memory corruption.
>
> The other problem with references lies in functions which return (the
> rsults of) functions or expressions. They need to be rewritten to
> return a variable.
>
> old:
> function &get_something() {
>   return some_otherthing();
> }
> new:
> function &get_something() {
>   $value=some_otherthing();
>   return $value;
> }
>
> I wonder if anybody on the horde project is already looking into this,
> or should I post a bug report on this?
> If not I will hereby volunteer to make some patches to solve this problem.
>
>
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> Onderwerp: Re: [horde] php-4.4.0 woes
>       Aan: horde <horde at lists.horde.org>
>
>
> > On 17 Jul Joeri Pronk wrote:
> >
> >> I can confirm this, 4.4.0 contains some serious memory corruption
> >> fixes when using references.
> >
> > Glad to hear this, although..
> >
> >> As I see it all the code needs to reviewed for incorrect references,
> >> fortunately they are easy to fix.
> >
> > Easy to fix? Can you tell me more on this please?
> >
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