Hi,
I'm trying to write a function in an extension (using PHP_FUNCTION) that
returns a value by reference. I have declared an arg info block
(ZEND_BEGIN_ARG_INFO_EX) to tell the engine that I am returning a value
by reference. Then to return the value, I first delete the old return
value (zval_ptr
Hi,
In her excellent book, Sara Golemon describes how PHP's refcount/is_ref
mechanism works, and the situations in which this leads to problems
(section "separation anxiety"). One of the examples is
$a = 1;
$b =& $a;
$c = $a;
Since $a is a "real" reference, $c cannot be made a copy-on-write
refe
Hi,
If I try to call zend_eval_string as follows:
zval* retval;
MAKE_STD_ZVAL(retval);
zend_eval_string("return 5;", retval, "eval'd code" TSRMLS_CC);
I get the following runtime error:
eval'd code(1) : Parse error - syntax error, unexpected T_RETURN
It turns out that zend_eval_string actualy
