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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Stop Exceptions capturing object references for trace
 arguments
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 13/08/2017 15:31, Niklas Keller wrote:
>
> If it's explicitly needed, someone could still just call 
> `debug_backtrace()` and manually store the args in the exception 
> constructor, no?

That depends exactly how it's being used, but yes if you control the 
throw site or Exception constructor you could grab the backtrace manually.


>
> Would the args still be available in the stringified version? Because 
> they're quite useful for debugging there.

Hm, I guess we'd need to store the string representation (the class 
name, basically) somewhere so we could keep that. Doesn't seem like it 
ought to be too hard, unless there's some hidden complexity or 
performance impact there.

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]