PHP 4.0 Bug #5025 Updated: Segmentation fault when using deeply nested scripts

ID: 5025 User Update by: mlemos@acm.org Status: Open Bug Type: Reproduceable crash Description: Segmentation fault when using deeply nested scripts Phew, it turned out to be infinite recursion problem. I was in sympathy error with my code and I could not figure that it was going through a large infinite recursion loop. I don't think there is nothing to fix in PHP except for some mechanisms to prevent programmers to go crazy with sympathy error due to infinite recursion like I was. Infinite recursion problems is programmers fault, but it would be nice if there was an option that would enforce a an effective limit to how many time a function may call itself whether directly or indirectly. The way it is now, these simple lines make PHP crash with segmentation fault: <? Function myfunction() { return(myfunction()); } echo myfunction(); ?> Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/version4/?id=5025