On Sat, 8 Oct 2016, Anatol Belski wrote:

> From: m...@daveyshafik.com [mailto:m...@daveyshafik.com] On Behalf Of Davey 
> Shafik
> > 
> > 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.
> > > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > 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)
> > 
> 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.

Although things have changed, right now, it is still saying that 
__debugInfo should return an array, and it is. That is a problem. I'd 
rather have this reverted, then it showing an *incorrect* error message:

https://3v4l.org/EJpD4#v700

cheers,
Derick

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