This derefernce made sense only for explicit paramter passing by reference, but this feature was removed in PHP-7.
The improvement is 100% backward compatible, only few "tricky" functions may be affected (e.g. extract and usort).
"called_scope" made sense only for static method calls, for dynamic calls it was always equal to the class of $this.
Now EG(This) may store IS_OBJECT + $this or IS_UNUSED + "called_scope" (of course, "called_scope" may be NULL).
Some code might need to be adopted to support this change.
Checks (Z_OBJ(EX(This))) might need to be converted into (Z_TYPE(EX(This)) == IS_OBJECT).
Squashed commit of the following:
commit f11ca0e7a5
Author: Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>
Date: Tue Dec 8 12:38:42 2015 +0300
Fixed test expectation
commit 211f873f54
Author: Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>
Date: Tue Dec 8 12:28:38 2015 +0300
Embed zend_class_constant.flags into zend_class_constants.value.u2.access_flags
commit 51deab84b2
Author: Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>
Date: Mon Dec 7 11:18:55 2015 +0300
Fixed issues found by Nikita
commit 544dbd5b47
Author: Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>
Date: Sat Dec 5 02:41:05 2015 +0300
Refactored immplementation of https://wiki.php.net/rfc/class_const_visibility
@reeze created an RFC here and I emailed internals here and didn't get any responses positive/negative.
Squashed commit of the following:
commit d96eab8d79
Author: Francois Laupretre <francois@tekwire.net>
Date: Fri Jun 26 01:23:31 2015 +0200
Use the new 'ZSTR' macros in the rest of the code.
Does not change anything to the generated code (thanks to compat macros) but cleaner.
commit b352643910
Author: Francois Laupretre <francois@tekwire.net>
Date: Thu Jun 25 13:45:06 2015 +0200
Improve zend_string API
Add missing methods
So ensure Z_PARAM_OPTIONAL is correctly call at the right place
Only in DEBUG build
Will raise 'Assertion `_i > _min_num_args || _optional==0' failed.'
or 'Assertion `_i <= _min_num_args || _optional==1' failed.'
Thus will allow to detect bad code early.
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.
