[PHP-DEV] Re: Convert ext/xml to use an object instead of resource

2019-04-08 Thread Nikita Popov
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 3:39 PM Nikita Popov wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 4:00 PM Nikita Popov wrote: > >> Hi internals, >> >> The ext/xml extension currently has GC issues, see >> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76874. The tl;dr is that uses of >> xml_parser will usually result in a cyclic

[PHP-DEV] Re: Convert ext/xml to use an object instead of resource

2019-03-21 Thread Nikita Popov
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 4:00 PM Nikita Popov wrote: > Hi internals, > > The ext/xml extension currently has GC issues, see > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76874. The tl;dr is that uses of > xml_parser will usually result in a cyclic structure, but resources do not > support cycle GC. This

[PHP-DEV] Re: Convert ext/xml to use an object instead of resource

2019-02-12 Thread Christoph M. Becker
On 12.02.2019 at 16:00, Nikita Popov wrote: > The ext/xml extension currently has GC issues, see > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76874. The tl;dr is that uses of xml_parser > will usually result in a cyclic structure, but resources do not support > cycle GC. This means that the user is required