#35672 [NEW]: endless loop with children() iterator

From: jw at jwscripts dot com Operating system: Windows XP PHP version: 5.1.1 PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related Bug description: endless loop with children() iterator Description: ------------ Not sure if this a bug or a feature, but when applying a fixed reference to a member of the iterator returned by the children() method in a foreach construct, it gets stuck in an infinite loop. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $xml = '<parent><element /><child /></parent>'; $xmldoc = simplexml_load_string($xml); $elements = $xmldoc->children(); foreach ($elements as $element) { $elements[0]; } ?> Expected result: ---------------- Finished after a couple of seconds at most. Actual result: -------------- Infinite loop. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=35672&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=trysnapshot51 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35672&r=mysqlcfg