Thanks a lot Nikita,
that’s it. I was not aware of no_separation influence, it was set to 1 in 
zend_call_method both in PHP5 and PHP7 so I didn't touch it during migration. I 
need to copy the arguments properly back now but basically it's working. Thanks 
again,
Martin
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2020 1:17 PM
To: mdole...@noctuint.cz
Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] zend_call_method with arguments passed by reference

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:18 PM <mdole...@noctuint.cz> wrote:

> Thank you for your answer Nikita.
> Can you please give me more details what you mean? I can try that approach.
> zend_call_method copies the args to params array which is assigned to 
> zend_fcall_info fci.
> I can pass there for example "test" zval string.
> Then the mentioned lower level zend_call_function() is called with fci 
> as parameter, that's what I do.
> In PHP code "test" is changed to "changed".
> But after the call the fci.params are not changed, still "test", so I 
> have nothing to copy back manually.
>

fci.params *should* contain the changed parameters after the call, at least 
assuming no_separation=0. It's not clear to me under what circumstances that 
wouldn't work.

Nikita


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 4:06 PM
> To: mdole...@noctuint.cz
> Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] zend_call_method with arguments passed by 
> reference
>
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 3:59 PM mdolezal.noctuint.cz via internals < 
> internals@lists.php.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I hope this is the appropriate mailing list, please redirect me to 
> > better please if required.
> >
> >
> >
> > I am currently rewriting our PHP extension from PHP5 to PHP7.
> >
> > To call PHP methods from our C/C++ code we use slightly modified 
> > zend_call_method from Zend/zend_interfaces.c (to use more arguments 
> > than 2).
> >
> >
> > Now I found out that it does not work with arguments passed by 
> > reference, such as:
> >
> > public function FuncWithRef(array &$changeThis)
> >
> >
> >
> > if values are changed in the PHP code then zval values back in C 
> > part after zend_call_function call are not influenced.
> >
> > With PHP5 the value was overwritten and could be used later in C code.
> >
> > Previously the zend_fcall_info struct for function call was filled 
> > with params simply by
> >
> >
> >
> > params[0] = &arg1;
> >
> >
> >
> > In PHP7 this is changed to
> >
> >
> >
> > ZVAL_COPY_VALUE(&params[0], arg1);
> >
> >
> >
> > After function is executed (zend_call_function) both fci.params and
> > arg1 contain still the original zval values,
> >
> > changes made in PHP code are not available. Is there any way how to 
> > solve this?
> >
> > I am mainly searching for and comparing code snippets in PHP/ext 
> > folder to see how things were rewritten from PHP5 to PHP7.
> >
> > Sorry if I missed something obvious and thank you for your help.
> >
>
> It looks like the implementation of zend_call_method() does not 
> support this, as it does not copy parameters back after the call. I'd 
> suggest to use the lower level zend_call_function() for the cases 
> where you need this for now.
>
> Nikita
>
>
>
>

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