Re: Help: call_user_function() core dumps

Thanks Johannes, Your suggestions were spot on. Thanks again - Dhiru Johannes Schlüter wrote:

Hi, On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 09:52 -0700, Dhiru Pandey wrote:

I am new to PHP extension writing and embedding. Following the book from Sara Goleman - Extending and Embedding PHP (Developer's Library) I wrote the following program based on her example in Chap. 20 =================================================================== #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sapi/embed/php_embed.h> int main(int argc, char** argv) {

      PHP_EMBED_START_BLOCK(argc, argv);

    zval* args[2];
    zval funcname;
    zval input_str;
    zval count;
    zval retval;
    char* ans;
      ZVAL_STRING(&funcname, "str_repeat", 0);
    args[0] = &input_str;
    args[1] = &count;
    

You have to use emalloc'ed memory for (basically) everything you give to the engine and no pointers to local variables else the engine tries to free these local variables. johannes