Given that ICU is a set of lively developed libraries, that ICU 50.1
has been released on 2012-11-05, and PHP 7.4 is scheduled to be
released seven years after it, we consider it appropriate to ditch
these legacy versions.
Particularly, that would be a reasonable groundwork to implement part
two of the “Deprecate and remove INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003” RFC[1], namely
to default idn_to_ascii()'s and idn_to_utf8()'s $variant parameter to
INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_UTS46, which is not defined in ICU < 4.6.
See also the related discussion on internals@[2].
[1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-and-remove-intl_idna_variant_2003>
[2] <http://news.php.net/php.internals/101626>ff
Using ecalloc() to create objects is expensive, because the
dynamic-size memset() is unreasonably slow. Make sure we only
zero the main object structure with known size, as the properties
are intialized separately anyway.
Technically we do not need to zero the embedded zend_object
structure either, but as long as the memset argument is constant,
a couple more bytes don't really matter.
Relying on invariant strings is a mistake. Not only UTF-8, but also
many charsets are not single byte. Actual date formats can be mixed
with arbitrary strings, and this can bring erroneous results in the
out. Thus, instead it is more convenient to say, that a format string
can consist either on UTF-8 or on pure ASCII as its subset. This is
what is currently being done in other classes like Formatter, etc.
as well.
Introduces a ZEND_PARSE_PARAMS_THROW flag for zpp, which forces to
report FAILURE errors using a TypeException instead of a Warning,
like it would happen in strict mode.
Adds a zend_parse_parameters_throw() convenience function, which
invokes zpp with this flag.
Converts all cases I could identify, where we currently have
throwing zpp usage in constructors and replaces them with this API.
Error handling is still replaced to EH_THROW in some cases to handle
other, domain-specific errors in constructors.
