From:             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Operating system: Redhat 8
PHP version:      4.3.0
PHP Bug Type:     Variables related
Bug description:  assign by reference function call changes variable contents

under 4.3.0 with apache 2.0.40 I see this strange behavior with aliasing:

$foo = "Philip Johnson's \"Glass House\" remains one of the most famous
residences in the world.";
$foo =& bar($foo);
print $foo;

function bar($text){
  return $text;
}

outputs: Philip Johnson's "Glass House" remains one of the most famous
residences in the worlh

This didn't happen under 4.2.3. Although really this was a mistake on my
part (I meant to do $foo = bar($foo)) it seems like strange behavior
nonetheless.

It's also strange to me that if I change 
return $text; 
to 
return "$text"; 
it works as I would expect.
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