#44632 [Opn->Bgs]: Segmentation fault when methods are playing "ping-pong"

ID: 44632 Updated by: jani@php.net Reported By: thh at tshw dot de -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Reproducible crash Operating System: Linux (Scientific & Ubuntu) PHP Version: 5.2.5 New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-04-03 18:31:22] thh at tshw dot de Description: ------------ Today we had an annoying issue with a complex class model, of which two classes happened to call each others method in a never ending loop. The result was a "Segmentation fault" providing no further information about the source of the error. PHP probably should handle those (programming) errors itself providing a more detailed error message. I could reproduce this error on a Scientific Linux with PHP 5.1.2 (cgi) as well as PHP 5.2.5 (cgi) and on Ubuntu Linux with PHP 5.2.3 (cli). Reproduce code: --------------- http://nopaste.tshw.de/1207246418545df/ Expected result: ---------------- Actually it really is a programmer's error. But it was really hard to identify because of the annoyingly short message "Segmentation fault". It would even have helped to get a "call stack overflow" instead. Actual result: -------------- Segmentation fault (I did not append a backtrace, because I think the problem is very obvious and I'd hate to compile PHP on a binary-based distribution. If you need it, tell me and I'll try to get you one.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=44632&edit=1