Merge branch 'PHP-8.3' into PHP-8.4

* PHP-8.3:
  standard: Take `zend.assertions` into account for dynamic calls to `assert()` (#18521)

ext/standard/assert.c

@@ -178,7 +178,11 @@ PHP_FUNCTION(assert)
 	zend_string *description_str = NULL;
 	zend_object *description_obj = NULL;
 
-	if (!ASSERTG(active)) {
+	/* EG(assertions) <= 0 is only reachable by dynamic calls to assert(),
+	 * since calls known at compile time will skip the entire call when
+	 * assertions are disabled.
+	 */
+	if (!ASSERTG(active) || EG(assertions) <= 0) {
 		RETURN_TRUE;
 	}
 

ext/standard/tests/assert/gh18509.phpt

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+--TEST--
+GH-18509: Dynamic calls to assert() ignore zend.assertions
+--INI--
+zend.assertions=0
+--FILE--
+<?php
+
+$c = "assert";
+
+$c(false);
+
+var_dump(array_map(assert(...), [true, true, false]));
+
+?>
+--EXPECT--
+array(3) {
+  [0]=>
+  bool(true)
+  [1]=>
+  bool(true)
+  [2]=>
+  bool(true)
+}