Bug #80816 [Com]: Missing symbol spl_ce_Countable

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80816&edit=1 ID: 80816 Comment by: jeviwi3279 at timothyjsilverman dot com Reported by: jeviwi3279 at timothyjsilverman dot com Summary: Missing symbol spl_ce_Countable Status: Assigned Type: Bug Package: Compile Failure Operating System: macOS PHP Version: master-Git-2021-03-01 (snap) Assigned To: kocsismate Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: It affects the latest releases of the following PECL extensions. 21 in total. I did not check how many of these support PHP 8+ though. AOP, cassandra, ds, hidef, ice, imagick, Judy, mongodb, pecl_http, phalcon, phar, pq, protobuf, pthreads, rdkafka, riak, Weakref, WinBinder, xrange, yaf, zip Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-03-01 17:48:55] kocsismate@php.net To be honest, I'd prefer simply adding the related changelog entry, and not to restore this alias (and the few other ones). These aliases were only needed due to technical reasons, since SPL did some macro magic, like this: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6709/files#diff-f86ee648d398a68130b2bff8808bcdb6382278eb198f98c5f6e12cb1f051a23eL1878 Such breaking changes (which affect extension internals) can happen in minor releases. Of course, we don't want to cause very large BC breaks, but this one seems like a very small one for me. Are you sure that a lot of extensions are affected? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-03-01 13:34:33] jeviwi3279 at timothyjsilverman dot com Yes, it will be a breaking change for many extensions when they are compiled for PHP 8.1. If it is not much effort, it should be restored now and removed later in a major release. Otherwise please add it to the changelog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-03-01 13:21:57] nikic@php.net It did get dropped, but it might make sense to restore it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-03-01 13:02:11] jeviwi3279 at timothyjsilverman dot com Description: ------------ Has the alias spl_ce_Countable for zend_ce_countable in SPL removed in master. I could not find this change in the changelog. This would be a breaking change for many extensions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80816&edit=1