Re: Help with corrupted defines [bug 11990]

Hi again, Brian. How does it run with Zend disabled? If you can send the info, we'll try to assist ;-) Cheers, On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:32:06AM -0700, Brian Lalor wrote: > Hey all. I haven't seen any further traffic on this issue (aside from > myself, that is :-) ). At one point yesterday, we were seeing an > approximate 5% failure rate; 5% of pages served had errors due to garbage > for a define. > > I spent some time poking about the PHP and Zend source yesterday and was > able to call a php_printf() whenever a constant was defined as a string. > Yeah, big deal, I know, but I'm thinking of using that method to verify > that what's going into the hash table is what I've put in the script. > > Is there a way to dump an arbitrary Zend hash table from a PHP script? > > I've tried stepping through the entire execution of a PHP script with GDB. > Not a pretty thing, as I'm sure most of you know. I'm not able to > determine even where the line > define("FOO", "bar"); > is read from the file. > > Somewhere, the data for the defined constant is getting corrupted. I > don't know enough about the Zend internals to checkpoint the data at > various points to see if it matches what I expect. The other problem is > that I can't reliably reproduce the error with a compact script or series > of scripts, which is a major bummer for all involved. > > Would someone with the knowledge of the internals of PHP and Zend be > willing to spend some time one-on-one with me any my team trying to get a > solution to this? > > Thanks, > B > > -- > Brian Lalor > blalor@insight.com > (v) 480-333-3196 > (f) 480-760-9298 > -- | Robin V. Stacey Business Critical Web Applications available | eCommerce & Finance Team Mentor @ http://www.myopenapps.com | PlusNet Technologies Ltd + -------- Internet Access Solutions @ http://www.plus.net ----------- Beauty, n.: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. -- Ambrose Bierce