It's not quite as simple as that.  To qualify dynamically loadable
extensions, you will need "debug-zval / non-debug-zval" in addition to
the existing debug/non-debug + zts/no-zts.  Or it can be made part of
debug mode, but then the API number has to be bumped, which requires a
minor version change (4.3 -> 4.4).

 - Stig

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 22:13, Todd Ruth wrote:
> Actually, I found the code reasonably clear - a kudos to someone.
> The points about the footprint and performance are well taken.
> Because the feature is most important before any customers see the
> latest rev of product, the feature would be just as useful as
> an optional part of the php build.  It's already useful to do
> testing with a different php build than the production build just
> to have php debugging enabled.  Although the feature performs
> best with an added field in the zval struct, if it is considered
> bad form to have an ifdef in the struct, the feature could be
> implemented with a separate table.  (The table would have zval
> pointers as indices and allow_copies values as values.  Any
> pointer not in the table would be assumed to have allow_copies
> set to true.  The table, checks, and new functions would only
> be avaiable for debug builds (or whatever build flag is most
> appropriate).)
> 
> Better?
> 
> - Todd
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 12:54, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > At 09:25 PM 3/3/2004 +0100, Derick Rethans wrote:
> > >On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Todd Ruth wrote:
> > >
> > > > Finding those bugs when you have tens of thousands of lines of
> > > > php can be a real headache.  That's why I'd very much like
> > > > a disallow_copies function.
> > >
> > >But as you demonstrated with your patch you need to modify some of the
> > >basic data types that PHP uses and thus increasing memory footprint and
> > >decreasing performance. It is therefore very unlikely that this will be
> > >ever allowed into the PHP source.
> > 
> > Yep, I agree with Derick. Needless to say that it's very dangerous to try 
> > and make sense out of the low level stuff the engine and the PHP extensions 
> > are doing (such as copy constructing, separating and other stuff).
> > 
> > Andi

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