> > Why is there a 15 byte limit in the first place? > > Presumably it might be so that multi-megabyte strings are not dumped > to the console when printing out a stack trace. (Disclaimer: I have > not touched the relevant code and am just guessing.)
It apparently dates back to 2003, when exception::getTraceAsString() was first added. https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/c80eb4573f8cbc268463c7ec233b467bd9b36b0f#diff-16cc0fb22dbf90c4c465180255880ea0R167 Arguably, computers have more disk space and better processors. The reasons I can think of to keep a low default limit: - Syslogs might use udp for async logging, which has a limit of 4096 bytes or so, which hasn't changed - Code might truncate before logging an exception, and shorter argument representations would allow logging more frames of the stack trace - Code might log exceptions to disk during abnormal events (e.g. network outages), and too high of a default would fill up disks faster - CLI apps might fill up the entire screen or terminal scrollback buffer with megabyte-long strings (e.g. `string $file_contents`) - Tyson -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
