On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote:
> Commit: cfd104582220d578ab1b78a5991065d038e1f931 > Author: Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> Thu, 16 May 2013 > 14:37:36 -0700 > Parents: bc656cde0453aa6de50812ba9edfc6f74c61ce37 > Branches: master > > Link: > http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=cfd104582220d578ab1b78a5991065d038e1f931 > > Log: > Add optional second arg to unserialize() > > Returns the number of bytes consumed by reference for > streaming unserialization. > > Actual unserialization behavior is not modified at all. > > The need for this came up while trying to parse SplDoublyLinkedList's > serialization format which uses a non-standard stream of serialized values. > Imho this should have been briefly discussed on internals beforehand. At least to me this seems rather dubious (why is it needed? why are you manually parsing a part of the DLL serialization?) and also clashes with Stas' proposed changes to unserialize. Nikita
