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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:41:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: PHP 5 Beta 2
From: cshmoove@bellsouth.net ("l0t3k")

Andi,
   is/was someone planning on looking into the problem of  class constants
for internal classes? i'll include a comment (from Moriyoshi) in our project
as a reference

/*
 * XXX: zend_initialize_class_data() is totally mess!  because it
 * virtually doesn't take it into account that the constants of
 * internal classes are persistently allocated while they will actually
 * be destroyed by the normal ZVAL_PTR_DTOR() which accepts zvals
 * allocated by emalloc().
 * That's why I prepared my own zval destructors. But this workaround is
 * not safe yet because all the symbols bound dynamically by the Zend engine
 * are supposed to be released before the destruction of class entries
 * registered by extensions at the engine shutdown.
 * So this extension has to be linked statically to the PHP runtime for now.
 * .. :(
 */

 that's the only outstanding issue i have personally with the beta.
otherwise the current CVS works well. ive tested the new read/write
dimension hooks, object level iterators, as well as casting, and they work
as expected.

l0t3k

"Andi Gutmans" <andi@zend.com> wrote in message
news:5.1.0.14.2.20031016174936.02ffdc98@127.0.0.1...
> Hey,
>
> I'd like to release Beta 2 at the end of the week after next (30th of
> October). Please make sure your code is ready by then. If there's anything
> critical that can't be ready on time please let me know (although I doubt
> there is such a thing).
> Beta 2 will be a big step forward from beta 1 and I think once it's out
> it'll allow us to build the necessary momentum for releasing beta's of PHP
> 5 more often.
>
> Andi