Re: Help with corrupted defines [bug 11990]

Brian, In order to debug this you'd really need to try and cut it down to a smaller reproducible script. Maybe the best start for you is to compile with --enable-debug and see if you get any error messages from the memory manage in your error_log file about memory overruns and stuff. That could be a good first step. Andi At 10:32 AM 7/12/2001 -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 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net