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Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 15:48:26 +0800
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To: Juan Basso <jrbasso@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Arrays being generated with length and no content on master
From: laruence@gmail.com (Xinchen Hui)

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> On Mar 7, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Juan Basso <jrbasso@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I was testing CakePHP framework with PHP 7 and some tests were failing.
> Digging into the issue I found that using compact in a certain way can
> cause PHP to create an array with length but no content inside.
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> I reported and added some examples on how to reproduce on
> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=3D69198
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> I'm sending this email more to bring the attention that this can be a
> potential issue on the engine since other places can have the same issue o=
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> even non-internals extensions can generate this kind of weirdness. I wonde=
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> if doing this can cause some security issue.
thanks for reporting this. :)

Nice catch,  I will take care of it

Thanks
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> Thanks,
> Juan Basso