Bug #73166 [NEW]: Function ruturns instruction in finally

From: shoaib dot bazmi at hotmail dot co dot uk Operating system: Windows 10 PHP version: 5.6.26 Package: PHP Language Specification Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Function ruturns instruction in finally Description: ------------ While using try catch and finally, the function returns the instruction which is mentioned in finally block. It is prohibitted in .Net, gives syntax error and logically return statement should be a syntax error if used in finally block. I wrote a function which returns and increment by 1 in argument variable and increment by 2 in finally block. Whenever i the function it returs variable incremented by 2 i.e finally block instruction. Test script: --------------- function incrementVar($x) { try{ return ++$x; }catch($e){} finally{ return $x+2; } } echo incrementVar(1); Expected result: ---------------- 2 Actual result: -------------- 3 -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73166&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73166&r=mysqlcfg