php crashing

[Yannick Majoros]

Hello,

PHP is crashing (segfault) due to some bug. See
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32929 for details, but here is the code
in which it occurs:

while ($res=$result->fetchRow(DB_FE TCHMODE_ASSOC))
{
// TODO: make iconv optional
foreach ($res as $key=>$val)
$res[$key]=iconv("ISO-8859-1","UTF-8",$val);
////// CRASHING ON FOLLOWING LINE AFTER 5 ITERATIONS (DATA DEPENDANT)
$wikireq[$id][]=$res;
}

Tried on two different servers and with various compile options/php
versions (recent), it is still there.

Oops, and this code really needs to go to "production ", I don't know
what to do :-(

Does someone see something in it (workaround, ...) ?

Thank you,

Yannick Majoros

[Andy Hassall]

Re: php crashing

On Tue, 03 May 2005 21:06:58 +0200, Yannick Majoros <majoros@inma.u cl.ac.be>
wrote:
[color=blue]
> PHP is crashing (segfault) due to some bug. See
>http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32929 for details, but here is the code
>in which it occurs:
>
>while ($res=$result->fetchRow(DB_FE TCHMODE_ASSOC))
> {
> // TODO: make iconv optional
> foreach ($res as $key=>$val)
> $res[$key]=iconv("ISO-8859-1","UTF-8",$val);
>////// CRASHING ON FOLLOWING LINE AFTER 5 ITERATIONS (DATA DEPENDANT)
> $wikireq[$id][]=$res;
> }
>
> Tried on two different servers and with various compile options/php
>versions (recent), it is still there.
>
> Oops, and this code really needs to go to "production ", I don't know
>what to do :-(
>
> Does someone see something in it (workaround, ...) ?[/color]

As you'll probably be asked in the bug report, post a complete but minimal
runnable example. You said it's data dependent, but didn't provide data. The
code won't run as-is.

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[Yannick Majoros]

Re: php crashing

Andy Hassall wrote:
[color=blue]
> As you'll probably be asked in the bug report, post a complete but minimal
> runnable example. You said it's data dependent, but didn't provide data. The
> code won't run as-is.
>[/color]

You are right, but it is very difficult to provide. The fact is that I
wrote some plugins for a wiki-based portal, and that some pages break. I
know they break on the code I provided, but it probably won't break
without the portal ("tikiwiki") , plugins, etc. being loaded.

I think my next step will be to fill big arrays with random data and
see if I can make php crash this way, so I'll have reproducible code.

Regards,

Yannick Majoros

[Chung Leong]

Re: php crashing

What if you use array_push() instead of the the $a[] = syntax?

[Yannick Majoros]

Re: php crashing

Ok, it seems that the bug was somewhere else, in the portal I use
(tikiwiki).

It's true that it didn't crash if I put a return just before the
assignment, and that it did otherwise, but the crash was really
somewhere else, due to "infinite" recursion (limited to 64 by php). I
corrected the bug in tikiwiki.

Thanks to all people who checked this, and sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,

Yannick Majoros