On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, Xinchen Hui wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Anatol Belski <anatol....@belski.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: m...@daveyshafik.com [mailto:m...@daveyshafik.com] On Behalf Of Davey 
> > Shafik
> > >
> > > Yes, we should not mask the exception. The behavior in 
> > > 7.0/7.1.0RC1 is much better IMO.
> > >
> > > (As seen here: https://3v4l.org/EJpD4#v700)
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I was looking at Xdebug for PHP 7.1, and I ran into the 
> > > > > following inconsistency:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://3v4l.org/tHteN
> > > > >
> > > > > I first thought that Xdebug was messing up, but it seems like 
> > > > > it's different behaviour in PHP itself. As I clearly return an 
> > > > > array from __debugInfo, I don't think the new result is the 
> > > > > correct one.
> > > > >
> > > > > cheers, Derick
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > This is due to https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/ 
> > > > 2d8ab51576695630a7471ff829cc5ea10becdc0f, which landed in 
> > > > PHP-7.0 as well. The problem is that __debugInfo currently is 
> > > > not able to handle exceptions gracefully. I think we should 
> > > > revert this change for now as it hides the fact that the 
> > > > underlying cause of the error is an exception.
> > > >
> > As far as I understand the bug #73067, it was about avoiding the 
> > fatal error, not about avoiding the exception. Please correct if I'm 
> > wrong. But given this, the fatal error still persists while the 
> > exception is removed. It looks like it's doing the exact reversed to 
> > what one would expect - no fatal error and the exception can be 
> > catched.
> >
> > I see that it's not yet released in 7.0, so I would prefer to revert 
> > this in the release, at least. Hui, Nikita, do you think it's 
> > possible to improve this for 7.0 in a follow up? I would revert in 
> > 7.0.12 and there'll be room to fix it in the dev branch till 7.0.13. 
> > Otherwise I'd suggest to revert to the previous behavior in 7.0+ and 
> > do a fix in an appropriate higher branch.
> >
> The real problem is:
> 
>     we are expecting __debugInfo always returns array,  but it doesn't if
> exception is threw.
> 
>     so, if we keep the exception,  then we need inserts checks for
> exception (no array) after every debugInfo is called, or, make a FATAL
> error like the way I did
> 
>     however,  I think latter is better,  but maybe we could improve the
> fatal error message:

Sorry, but that's making it a user problem, and not a technical problem 
for us to solve correctly. I very much expected an Uncaught Exception 
here.

cheers,
Derick

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