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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:44:29 +0100
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To: Stefan Esser <stefan.esser@sektioneins.de>
Cc: Tim Starling <tstarling@wikimedia.org>, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>, 
	PHP Developers Mailing List <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.1 reference parameter regression
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

I agree that this feature should be avoided in userland, but I think
that it would be terrible, if this "bugfix" would stay this way,
because this breaks backward compatibility -without notification- with
a minor version update both in 5.3 and 5.2 branch.

Tyrael

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Stefan Esser
<stefan.esser@sektioneins.de> wrote:
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> Hello Tim,
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>>> There seems to have been no progress on this. Is there anything I can d=
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>>> to help?
> just for the record: why does MediaWiki rely on a feature
> "Call-Time-Pass-By-Reference" that is deprecated since PHP 4.0.0 <-
> Yes exactly 4.0.0
>
> What happened between 5.3.0 and 5.3.1 is that stas killed that feature
> for internal functions to work around a big security problem in the
> design of the Zend Engine.
> Considering the fact that the feature is DEPRECATED since 4.0.0 it
> would even be okay to kill it for all functions.
>
> Stefan Esser
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