Re: [PHP4BETA] MAKE_STD_ZVAL(): when???

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: > > Quoting Andrei Zmievski <andrei@ispi.net>: > > > > > You _never_ call MAKE_STD_ZVAL() on return_value. It's already > > > preallocated for you. MAKE_STD_ZVAL() is used to allocate a new zval. > > > > Okay, that makes sense. Do you call MAKE_STD_ZVAL on every other zval that > > goes _into_ a return value (array or object member), then? > > You call MAKE_STD_ZVAL() on any _new_ zval. You don't need to do it on a > zval * if it refers to another zval in the symbol table, for example. > > > Are there plans to update CODING_STANDARDS soon (it still refers to php3)? > > If I were to take a shot at re-writing it for php4, would one of the core > > developers be willing to look over it and correct my misunderstandings? > > Well, I'm going to be writing some API docs fairly soon as a consequence > of having to give a presentation on how to write PHP extensions at the > O'Reilly conference. Feel free to update CODING_STANDARDS, though, if > you want to. Hmm, Andi's probably going to be in this conference as well. Did they tell you you'd be doing a lecture about the Zend API? Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/