Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34825 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 36576 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Jan 2008 07:08:32 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 36561 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2008 07:08:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Jan 2008 07:08:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=tony@daylessday.org; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=tony@daylessday.org; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain daylessday.org designates 89.208.40.236 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: tony@daylessday.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 89.208.40.236 mail.daylessday.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [89.208.40.236] ([89.208.40.236:35638] helo=daylessday.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B3/B1-18592-E6050974 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:08:31 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.34] (ppp91-76-71-246.pppoe.mtu-net.ru [91.76.71.246]) by daylessday.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546D66401E6; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:08:27 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <47905069.7050004@daylessday.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:08:25 +0300 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael B Allen CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <78c6bd860801171233p6f652d3bl54559d51963c1300@mail.gmail.com> <478FC8E4.3050104@daylessday.org> <78c6bd860801171739o3e746302v449afd6f62eaa30b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <78c6bd860801171739o3e746302v449afd6f62eaa30b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Referencing constants in extension code From: tony@daylessday.org (Antony Dovgal) On 18.01.2008 04:39, Michael B Allen wrote: >> You have to copy the string if you want to store it. > > Ok. Doesn't look like I have much choice. I just wanted to understand > the problem better. I'll just copy the strings. > > But it does seem odd to me that PHP does not always reference string > constants directly. I mean, why copy if you don't have to? Because you have to copy something that is going to be freed by PHP. That's how it works & worked for ages - you don't have to free the strings you get from zend_parse_parameters() because PHP does it for you. -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal