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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Don't add simple objects to GC's roots
From: gmblar@gmail.com (Andreas Treichel)

Hi,

> So I propose to make the gc_disable function accept one zval reference as
> parameter. And if gc_disable get that zval, gc_disable just drop the zval’s
> GC_COLLECTABLE flag, which will hint the PHP gc not to trace that zval.

i dont know if this is a good idea or not. But for the "s" in solid, 
create a new function like gc_exclude to exclude variables from the 
garbage collector and do not add a parameter to gc_disable.