Hi, I can confirm that behaviour (older CVS build) and it seems that you can get that thingy to segfault if you var_dump twice. That might be helpful for investigating that "interesting" behaviour. Backtrace follows...
#0 0x000000000087a3b9 in zend_mm_check_ptr (heap=0xe20710, ptr=0x7fffa5cd22c8, silent=0x1, __zend_filename=0xbf3e40 "/usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_variables.c", __zend_lineno=0xaf, __zend_orig_filename=0xbf2830 "/usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_execute.h", __zend_orig_lineno=0x46) at /usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_alloc.c:1264 #1 0x000000000087bdc8 in _zend_mm_free_int (heap=0xe20710, p=0x7fffa5cd22c8, __zend_filename=0xbf3e40 "/usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_variables.c", __zend_lineno=0xaf, __zend_orig_filename=0xbf2830 "/usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_execute.h", __zend_orig_lineno=0x46) at /usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_alloc.c:1895 #2 0x000000000087d4b5 in _efree (ptr=0x7fffa5cd22c8, __zend_filename=0xbf3e40 "/usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_variables.c", __zend_lineno=0xaf, __zend_orig_filename=0xbf2830 "/usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_execute.h", __zend_orig_lineno=0x46) at /usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_alloc.c:2263 #3 0x000000000088c248 in safe_free_zval_ptr_rel (p=0x7fffa5cd22c8, __zend_filename=0xbf3e40 "/usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_variables.c", __zend_lineno=0xaf, __zend_orig_filename=0xbf2798 "/usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_execute_API.c", __zend_orig_lineno=0x19f) at zend_execute.h:70 #4 0x000000000088c1cd in _zval_ptr_dtor (zval_ptr=0x10d04d0, __zend_filename=0xbf3e40 "/usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_variables.c", __zend_lineno=0xaf) at /usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_execute_API.c:415 #5 0x000000000089b0e1 in _zval_ptr_dtor_wrapper (zval_ptr=0x10d04d0) at /usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_variables.c:175 #6 0x00000000008aa9fa in zend_hash_destroy (ht=0x10cfed8) at /usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_hash.c:526 #7 0x0000000000891865 in destroy_zend_class (pce=0x10f9cb8) at /usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_opcode.c:182 #8 0x00000000008aada8 in zend_hash_apply_deleter (ht=0xe21040, p=0x10f9ca0) at /usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_hash.c:611 #9 0x00000000008ab3de in zend_hash_reverse_apply (ht=0xe21040, apply_func=0x88b75b <clean_non_persistent_class>) at /usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_hash.c:760 #10 0x000000000088be10 in shutdown_executor () at /usr/src/php5/Zend/zend_execute_API.c:291 #11 0x000000000089c755 in zend_deactivate () at /usr/src/php5/Zend/zend.c:860 #12 0x0000000000843392 in php_request_shutdown (dummy=0x0) at /usr/src/php5/main/main.c:1463 #13 0x00000000009206de in main (argc=0x2, argv=0x7fffa5cd4cd8) at /usr/src/php5/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:1332 best regards Moritz Bechler -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php