Change debug_zval_dump to return the dump unaffected by __debugInfo?

Hello Internals. Today I'm fighting with some code that I think uses var_dump() and output buffering to create the output for __debugInfo... or something like that - I'm not really interested into finding the cause :P Anyway, It's not the first time I find myself paralyzed by a slightly broken __debugInfo, including with code that I've written myself (I hate that guy). One big problem is that once you have overriden it in a super class, you can't revert __debugInfo back to the php's implementation easily; the following doesn't actually do the same thing: function __debugInfo(){ return (array)$this; } But even better, it would be nice if debug_zval_dump() always returned the debug information unaffected by custom user-defined __debugInfo. This is by the way what HHVM does: https://3v4l.org/OoJkC Thoughts?