Re: [PHP-DEV] $obj = new foo() patch From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 11/10/00

At 13:39 10/11/2000, André Langhorst wrote:
>>It actually always worked, but only appeared to be working. It could
>>(and almost always did) end up corrupting data structures. In 4.0.4,
>>this is actively detected, and prevented.
>
>The counterproof is atteched.

You can't find a counterproof :) There *was* a bug in there. Obviously,
it didn't have symptoms under all circumstances, but finding an example
that works proves absolutely nothing.

PHP 4.0.4 will be the first version of PHP that does not allow you to send
anything by reference unless it is a variable (as opposed to a function
call return value, for instance). Earlier versions of PHP allowed it, but
it didn't necessarily work, and led to data corruption (which perhaps
didn't have symptoms under all circumstances).

Zeev 

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