Hello Tim, that's a major API break so we would need to make that 4.5. Which is kind of out of question atm. Just change to 5.
marcus Saturday, January 7, 2006, 5:47:27 AM, you wrote: > I've had some trouble with large arrays in my PHP programs causing > corruption of the heap. I tracked the problem back to PHP 4's 16-bit > reference count. If you have more than 64K references to a given zval, the > counter will overflow, then when the references are freed, the object will > be double-freed, causing a segfault. Dangling references are also possible, > allowing reading and writing of subsequently allocated blocks. > No doubt the PHP dev team are aware of this already, since it was fixed in > PHP 5, by using a 32-bit type instead. My question is: is there any > intention to backport this simple but important bugfix to PHP 4? Many PHP > users are still using PHP 4, and it's not a very well advertised fact that > it does not properly support arrays with more than 64K entries. > -- Tim Starling Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
