In 8b3c1a3, this was disallowed to fix#55856, which was a security
issue caused by the /e modifier. The fix that was made was the
"Easier fix" as described in the original report.
With this fix, pattern strings are no longer treated as null terminated,
so null characters can be placed inside and matched against with regex
patterns without security problems, so there is no longer a reason to
give the error. Allowing this is consistent with the behaviour of many
other languages, including JavaScript, and thanks to PCRE2[0], it does
not require manually escaping null characters. Now that we can avoid the
error here without the cost of escaping characters, there is really no
need anymore to stray here from the conventional behaviour.
Currently, null characters are still disallowed before the first
delimiter and in the options section at the end of a regex string, but
these error messages have been updated.
[0] Since PCRE2, pattern strings no longer have to be null terminated,
and raw null characters match as normal.
Closes GH-8114.
RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/tostring_exceptions
And convert some object to string conversion related recoverable
fatal errors into Error exceptions.
Improve exception safety of internal code performing string
conversions.
This patch adds missing newlines, trims multiple redundant final
newlines into a single one, and trims redundant leading newlines in all
*.phpt sections.
According to POSIX, a line is a sequence of zero or more non-' <newline>'
characters plus a terminating '<newline>' character. [1] Files should
normally have at least one final newline character.
C89 [2] and later standards [3] mention a final newline:
"A source file that is not empty shall end in a new-line character,
which shall not be immediately preceded by a backslash character."
Although it is not mandatory for all files to have a final newline
fixed, a more consistent and homogeneous approach brings less of commit
differences issues and a better development experience in certain text
editors and IDEs.
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_206
[2] https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#2.1.1.2
[3] https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c99/n1256.html#5.1.1.2
E_RECOVERABLE errors are reported as "Catchable fatal error". This is
misleading, because they actually can't be caught via try-catch statements.
Therefore we change the wording to "Recoverable fatal error" as suggested by
Nikita.
