Re: Perplexing crash with 5.2.9+ php5ts.dll

Richard Quadling wrote: > OK, so far so good. > > Now create a simple PHP script which you can run at the command line > which you think will cause the issue. > > If you can produce a simple test case, then allow us to run it to see > if it is reproducible. > Okay, found the problem; it's with simplexml_load_string() and with some bad code. simplexml_load_string() under 5.2.8 will return a proper SimpleXMLElement object from a non-UTF-16-encoded bit of XML, even though the XML says that it *is* encoded with UTF-16. Under 5.2.9+, simplexml_load_string() tosses a warning and returns FALSE. Apache was crashing because a poorly written SimpleXMLtoArray() function was recursively calling itself without checking the arguments first. I suspect it simply ran out of memory, but I didn't step through it enough times to verify. Here's a bit of code that can reproduce the "problem": $xmlstr = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><foo xmlns="http://www.foo.com/service"><bar name="foobar"></bar></foo>'; $xml = simplexml_load_string( $xmlstr, "SimpleXMLElement", LIBXML_NOCDATA ); Why the change in encoding-handling between the PHP versions? I can't see anything in the 5.2.9 Changelog that would affect this.