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Arnaud Le Blanc 73b1ebfa20
Fix linker failure when building Opcache statically
We use linker relocations to fetch the TLS index and offset of _tsrm_ls_cache.
When building Opcache statically, linkers may attempt to optimize that into a
more efficient code sequence (relaxing from "General Dynamic" to "Local Exec"
model [1]). Unfortunately, linkers will fail, rather than ignore our
relocations, when they don't recognize the exact code sequence they are
expecting.

This results in errors as reported by GH-15074:

    TLS transition from R_X86_64_TLSGD to R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF against
    `_tsrm_ls_cache' at 0x12fc3 in section `.text' failed"

Here I take a different approach:

 * Emit the exact full code sequence expected by linkers
 * Extract the TLS index/offset by inspecting the linked ASM code, rather than
   executing it (execution would give us the thread-local address).
 * We detect when the code was relaxed, in which case we can extract the TCB
   offset instead.
 * This is done in a conservative way so that if the linker did something we
   didn't expect, we fallback to a safer (but slower) mechanism.

One additional benefit of that is we are now able to use the Local Exec model in
more cases, in JIT'ed code. This makes non-glibc builds faster in these cases.

Closes GH-18939.

Related RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/make_opcache_required.

[1] https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf
2025-07-26 16:43:41 +02:00
.circleci Merge branch 'PHP-8.3' into PHP-8.4 2025-03-10 13:38:16 +01:00
.github Merge branch 'PHP-8.4' 2025-07-26 16:17:51 +02:00
benchmark Merge branch 'PHP-8.3' into PHP-8.4 2025-03-30 00:45:03 +01:00
build gen_stub: simplify ClassInfo::getRegistration() 2025-07-25 11:17:34 -07:00
docs RM docs: Update social media annoncement process (#19159) 2025-07-19 01:18:39 +02:00
docs-old Autotools: Normalize and quote all PHP_NEW_EXTENSION arguments (#15144) 2024-07-29 00:14:59 +02:00
ext Fix linker failure when building Opcache statically 2025-07-26 16:43:41 +02:00
main main: Add PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER userland constant (#19157) 2025-07-21 10:43:14 +02:00
pear Remove non-existing INI directive detect_unicode (#18909) 2025-06-23 23:44:20 +02:00
sapi Disable error handler in fuzzer (#19183) 2025-07-19 13:08:21 +02:00
scripts bless_tests: Replace the object ID in var_dump() for namespaced classes (#19174) 2025-07-18 20:43:23 +02:00
tests Deprecate producing output in a user output handler (#19067) 2025-07-09 21:20:58 -07:00
TSRM Drop unused local variables (GH-17682) 2025-02-03 16:42:29 +01:00
win32 Update re2c minimum versions in Windows checks and docs (#19039) 2025-07-07 07:54:29 +02:00
Zend Introduce zend_vm_opcode_handler_t / zend_vm_opcode_handler_func_t 2025-07-26 13:20:59 +02:00
.editorconfig Improve php-src docs sphinx build, also on *nix (GH-16743) 2024-11-29 19:29:00 +01:00
.gdbinit Merge branch 'PHP-8.2' into PHP-8.3 2024-01-23 12:55:47 +01:00
.gitattributes Add ext/uri skeleton along with uriparser (#18658) 2025-05-27 08:16:24 +02:00
.gitignore [skip ci] Add editor config dirs to gitignore (GH-18669) 2025-06-27 20:59:46 +02:00
buildconf Merge branch 'PHP-8.2' into PHP-8.3 2024-11-09 14:05:38 +01:00
buildconf.bat Fix #79146: cscript can fail to run on some systems 2020-01-21 11:53:11 +01:00
codecov.yml Add Lexbor files for URL handling (#18656) 2025-05-27 13:06:02 +02:00
CODING_STANDARDS.md [skip ci] Bump required C standard to C11 2024-09-27 12:37:20 +02:00
configure.ac PHP 8.3 is now for PHP-8.3.25-dev 2025-07-16 14:09:24 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Document contributor certification in CONTRIBUTING.md [skip ci] (#18356) 2025-05-01 16:30:48 +01:00
EXTENSIONS EXTENSIONS: lexbor is since 2025 [skip ci] (#19031) 2025-07-04 15:10:16 -07:00
LICENSE Update year to 2024 2024-01-04 19:26:32 +01:00
NEWS opcache: Disallow changing opcache.memory_consumption when SHM is set up (#19146) 2025-07-25 18:36:47 +02:00
php.ini-development Introduce OpenSSL INI for selecting libctx (#18768) 2025-07-14 15:16:14 +02:00
php.ini-production Introduce OpenSSL INI for selecting libctx (#18768) 2025-07-14 15:16:14 +02:00
README.md [ci skip] Update OSS-Fuzz link 2025-06-29 01:00:15 +02:00
README.REDIST.BINS Add ext/uri skeleton along with uriparser (#18658) 2025-05-27 08:16:24 +02:00
run-extra-tests.php Fix linker failure when building Opcache statically 2025-07-26 16:43:41 +02:00
run-tests.php run-tests.php: Remove extra env vars in the generated .sh file (#18306) 2025-04-29 10:59:10 +02:00
SECURITY.md Move most of this to https://github.com/php/policies as per Policies RFC 2024-01-30 17:31:55 +00:00
UPGRADING opcache: Disallow changing opcache.memory_consumption when SHM is set up (#19146) 2025-07-25 18:36:47 +02:00
UPGRADING.INTERNALS UPGRADING, UPGRADING.INTERNALS, and NEWS for SVG and extensible image API 2025-07-20 12:53:57 +02:00

The PHP Interpreter

PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world. PHP is distributed under the PHP License v3.01.

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Documentation

The PHP manual is available at php.net/docs.

Installation

Prebuilt packages and binaries

Prebuilt packages and binaries can be used to get up and running fast with PHP.

For Windows, the PHP binaries can be obtained from windows.php.net. After extracting the archive the *.exe files are ready to use.

For other systems, see the installation chapter.

Building PHP source code

For Windows, see Build your own PHP on Windows.

For a minimal PHP build from Git, you will need autoconf, bison, and re2c. For a default build, you will additionally need libxml2 and libsqlite3.

On Ubuntu, you can install these using:

sudo apt install -y pkg-config build-essential autoconf bison re2c libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev

On Fedora, you can install these using:

sudo dnf install re2c bison autoconf make libtool ccache libxml2-devel sqlite-devel

On MacOS, you can install these using brew:

brew install autoconf bison re2c iconv libxml2 sqlite

or with MacPorts:

sudo port install autoconf bison re2c libiconv libxml2 sqlite3

Generate configure:

./buildconf

Configure your build. --enable-debug is recommended for development, see ./configure --help for a full list of options.

# For development
./configure --enable-debug
# For production
./configure

Build PHP. To speed up the build, specify the maximum number of jobs using the -j argument:

make -j4

The number of jobs should usually match the number of available cores, which can be determined using nproc.

Testing PHP source code

PHP ships with an extensive test suite, the command make test is used after successful compilation of the sources to run this test suite.

It is possible to run tests using multiple cores by setting -jN in TEST_PHP_ARGS or TESTS:

make TEST_PHP_ARGS=-j4 test

Shall run make test with a maximum of 4 concurrent jobs: Generally the maximum number of jobs should not exceed the number of cores available.

Use the TEST_PHP_ARGS or TESTS variable to test only specific directories:

make TESTS=tests/lang/ test

The qa.php.net site provides more detailed info about testing and quality assurance.

Installing PHP built from source

After a successful build (and test), PHP may be installed with:

make install

Depending on your permissions and prefix, make install may need superuser permissions.

PHP extensions

Extensions provide additional functionality on top of PHP. PHP consists of many essential bundled extensions. Additional extensions can be found in the PHP Extension Community Library - PECL.

Contributing

The PHP source code is located in the Git repository at github.com/php/php-src. Contributions are most welcome by forking the repository and sending a pull request.

Discussions are done on GitHub, but depending on the topic can also be relayed to the official PHP developer mailing list internals@lists.php.net.

New features require an RFC and must be accepted by the developers. See Request for comments - RFC and Voting on PHP features for more information on the process.

Bug fixes don't require an RFC. If the bug has a GitHub issue, reference it in the commit message using GH-NNNNNN. Use #NNNNNN for tickets in the old bugs.php.net bug tracker.

Fix GH-7815: php_uname doesn't recognise latest Windows versions
Fix #55371: get_magic_quotes_gpc() throws deprecation warning

See Git workflow for details on how pull requests are merged.

Guidelines for contributors

See further documents in the repository for more information on how to contribute:

Credits

For the list of people who've put work into PHP, please see the PHP credits page.