* str_erealloc behaves like erealloc for normal strings, but will
use emalloc+memcpy for interned strings.
* str_estrndup behaves like estrndup for normal strings, but will
not copy interned strings.
* str_strndup behaves like zend_strndup for normal strings, but
will not copy interned strings.
* str_efree_rel behaves like efree_rel for normal strings, but
will not free interned strings.
* str_hash will return INTERNED_HASH for interned strings and
compute it using zend_hash_func for normal strings.
#Please review this change, I moved the routine which copies statics from the closure code to zend_variables.c
#Please also have a look to check whether the TSRMLS_DC is correct, and whether it fits with the rest in zend_variables, because there you are using some macro magic and I am not exactly sure what the reason is for that.
used to return "" and not bool(false). It's not worth keeping it because
STR_FREE() and zval_dtor() always have to check for it and it slows down
the general case. In addition, it seems that empty_string has been abused
quite a lot, and was used not only for setting zval's but generally in
PHP code instead of "", which wasn't the intention. Last but not least,
nuking empty_string should improve stability as I doubt every place
correctly checked if they are not mistakenly erealloc()'ing it or
calling efree() on it.
NOTE: Some code is probably broken. Each extension maintainer should
check and see that my changes are OK. Also, I haven't had time to touch
PECL yet. Will try and do it tomorrow.
- Perform implementation checks even with simple inheritance (off when
compatibility mode is enabled).
- Restore default arguments in interfaces and handle it correctly.
- Move registration of internal classes later in the startup sequence
in order to have INI options available.