Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:77478 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 85030 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2014 18:48:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Sep 2014 18:48:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=bobwei9@hotmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=bobwei9@hotmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain hotmail.com designates 65.55.111.98 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: bobwei9@hotmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 65.55.111.98 blu004-omc2s23.hotmail.com Received: from [65.55.111.98] ([65.55.111.98:64508] helo=BLU004-OMC2S23.hotmail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 2B/01-10955-9FE60245 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:48:25 -0400 Received: from BLU436-SMTP250 ([65.55.111.73]) by BLU004-OMC2S23.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.22724); Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:48:22 -0700 X-TMN: [LOMv1gB6/qsQljYvIaBecrm8ekhCsjNq] X-Originating-Email: [bobwei9@hotmail.com] Message-ID: Received: from bobs-mbp-2.fritz.box ([83.99.123.241]) by BLU436-SMTP250.smtp.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(8.0.9200.16384); Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:48:20 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:48:17 +0200 To: PHP internals MIME-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2014 18:48:20.0455 (UTC) FILETIME=[C79E5F70:01CFD695] Subject: The ABI and bug 68057 From: bobwei9@hotmail.com (Bob Weinand) https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=3D68057 is a regression introduced in PHP 5.6. So code which still worked with PHP 5.5 breaks in 5.6. The big issue is here, that the fix for this bug requires ABI breakage. = (changing an unsigned short into a zend_uint) I know that ABI compatibility is a pretty serious issue here, but it = also means that some perfectly valid PHP 5.5 code which is supposed to = still work on 5.6 will silently break. So, is it worth to break ABI or does it have to wait for 5.7 or the next = major? Bob=