Hello internals, While working on something, I was using GMP for a test case and creating it by doing akin to $o = new GMP(5);
However, this does *not* create a GMP object initialized to 5, rather it creates and sets the value to 0. This is because it does not define a constructor, and the proper way to create GMP objects is to use the procedural gmp_init() API. GMP was one of the first resource to object conversions which was performed in PHP 5.6. More recent resource to object conversions prevent the instantiation of the opaque object via new by defining a constructor that throws an Error to point to the procedural API. (something which would have saved me at least 30 minutes of debug time) Opened an issue [1] and a PR was made [2] which I requested to target 8.1 as I was considering this a bugfix, however it seems that some people to initialize the object by just writing new GMP(). Thus, the question, what should we do? - Merge as a bug fix for 8.1. - Target master (or 8.2.1) and align the behaviour with other opaque objects. - Add a proper constructor that does the same as gmp_init() in master/8.2.1 - Add a mock constructor that allows instantiating without arguments, but throws an error if trying to provide an argument. - Do nothing Best regards, George P. Banyard [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/10155 [2] https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/10158
