Re: Re: Internal properties

Hello Andi, Thursday, July 22, 2004, 8:16:10 AM, you wrote: > At 11:01 PM 7/21/2004 -0700, Andrei Zmievski wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I saw this in zend_opcode.c zend_cleanup_class_data(): >> >> /* Note that only run-time accessed data need to be cleaned up, >> * pre-defined data can not contain objects and thus are >> not probelmatic */ >> >>Which lead me to look into zend_declare_property() and I noticed that >>you cannot declare properties that are objects/arrays/resources. Is >>there a good reason for disallowing extension authors to do that? > The problem is that objects and resources can't really stay alive in > between requests because those mechanisms are shutdown at rshutdown. Arrays > also can't stay alive because they need to be emalloc()'ed or they won't > work with the engine. I rememer seeing a patch that gave anything that was allocated (either malloc or emalloc or whatever_alloc) a destructor function pointer alias free. Wouldn't that solve any related problem? -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net