Hello internals, today I stumbled over issue #65213[1] which has been reported as a bug, but was changed to a feature request without any hint why the conversion of SplFileInfo instances to boolean throws a catchable fatal error.
Even worse, due to optimizations in OPcache (and maybe other optimizers as well), this does not always happen. Consider the following snippet: <?php $o = new SplFileObject('.'); if (!$o) { } else { var_dump(!$o); } Without any optimization this throws the error in line 4 (the if clause); with OPcache the error is thrown in line 6. Apparently that is caused by a optimization where BOOL_NOT,JMPZ is converted to NOP,JMPNZ[2]. IOW: with OPcache enabled `if (!$o)` works fine, but without OPcache it is an error. IMHO both should behave identically. [1] <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65213> [2] <http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_5/ext/opcache/Optimizer/block_pass.c#816> -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php