Bug #80741 [NEW]: garbage text "($implicit=uninitialized)" randomly appears within error message

From: php4fan at gmail dot com Operating system: linux PHP version: 7.4.15 Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Bug Bug description:garbage text "($implicit=uninitialized)" randomly appears within error message Description: ------------ Errors logged to the error log file sometimes contain this garbage string: $implicit = *uninitialized* inserted into the error messages at apparently random places. For example, here a logged error: [Fri Feb 12 19:26:25.663189 2021] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 32445] [client XX.XX.XX.XX:0] AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Warning: Use of undefined constant THIS_SCRIPT - assumed 'THIS_SCRIPT' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /XXXXX/web/htdocs/vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo_vb.php on line 1128PHP message: PHP Stack trace:PHP message: PHP 1. {main}() /XXXXX/web/htdocs/vbpvbseo.php:0PHP message: PHP 2. include() /XXXXX/web/htdocs/vbpvbseo.php:151PHP message: PHP 3. vbseo_get_forum_info($implicit = *uninitialized*) /XXXXX/web/htdocs/vbseo.php:1041' This is a legitimate error, and the backtrace looks correct, except for the nonsensical "$implicit = *uninitialized*" which certainly means something to the person who wrote it but not to anybody else. In this case above I can still make sense of the error message and of the backtrace. However this other one: [Fri Feb 12 19:26:25.663791 2021] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 32445] [client XX.XX.XX.XX:0] AH01071: Got error '($implicit = *uninitialized*) /XXXXX/web/htdocs/vbseo.php:1041' The error is just that nonsensical thing followed by the file and line where the error supposedly happen, but it doesn't tell me what the error actually is (unless I know how to decypher "$implicit = *uninitialized*"). Line 1041 of that file is just a function call with no arguments: vbseo_get_forum_info(); so it makes no sense whatsoever that you get an error message right there, unless: - the function does not exist: in which case you should get a sensible error message like "Call to undefined function"; or - the error happens inside the function, in which case the error message would not point to that line where the function is called, but the line inside the function where the error happens. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80741&edit=1 -- Fix committed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=globals PHP version support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=phptooold Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80741&r=mysqlcfg