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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] List of possible E_RECOVERABLE_ERRORs
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Michael Morris wrote on 21/07/2015 18:11:
> Hi.  I hate to ask an outright question on the list rather but I've been
> searching the last 5 hours for an answer to this and haven't found anything
> and it's a rather tight corner case. I'm working on a small package for PHP
> 5.x that uses set_error_handler() to convert E_RECOVERABLE_ERRORs to the
> appropriate PHP 7 exceptions.  I know I can't emulate things exactly - my
> goal is to get things so that PHPUnit tests can use the same
> @expectedException annotation for these scenarios, simplifying unit test
> writing.
>
> As far as my research has found E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR has only ever been used
> for type hint failures.  Are there any other errors that have this type,
> and if so to what PHP 7 exception should they be converted?
>

You should be able to figure out with a grep of the source code for use 
of that constant (it has the same name in C as in PHP). A quick glance 
on lxr.php.net shows a few other uses: 
http://lxr.php.net/search?q=&defs=&refs=E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR&path=&hist=&project=PHP_5_6

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]