Hey @laruence, first off good news! We are at 85% with test fails, holy crap I never thought I would see the day.... https://gist.github.com/Sean-Der/cd94c0b6fb71a81e089b

However, I have ran into another issue with translating. In PHP 5 you could call zend_symtable_update and zend_hash_index_update on an object, allowing you to create invalid properties. In PHP 7 when you use those functions on the HASH_OF(object) it will create strange state (object becomes immutable, you will get a segfault in other places)
Here is the sample code in PHP 5 showing these behaviors.

In PHP 7 converting these functions to the appropriate zend_object functions also breaks references. zend_std_write_property
Here is the sample code in PHP 5 showing these behaviors.

I am going to be taking a break from working on this extension till I know the answer to the issues I have talked about so far. The template related functions have memory leaks (that are caught by the PHP memory manager)

thanks!

@zxcvdavid Thank you so much for looking this PR over! Going through and fixing your comments now.

I am not able to compile with -C89 , I am getting errors in Zend headers? What compiler/flags are recommended?

Would you mind looking over my comments/questions above about the zend API.

thanks!

@Sean-Der about C89 issues, you can see : php/php-src@76a290d

Variable definitions need at the top.

thanks.

Hey, just FYI, I am going to work on this in this week , I am going to create a new PHP7 branch.. thanks

@laruence that is awesome to hear!

Is there anything I can do to make things easier on you?

Also currently php-src has some headers with C++ style comments (can't compile anything with -ansi) I am going to open a PR soon to fix that. There was some discussion in the PHP 7 extension channel about it.

@Sean-Der nothing now, you have done a great work :), thanks

just for the record, I spent whole day on this. there is a problem that is, we should pop values on stack. thus in case of err, we could release these garbages on the stack to fix the memleaks, which should reduce the peak memory usage as well.

however, it is not easy for the current implementation.. need more time..

my current work could be found at : https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-php/tree/php7

@laruence Just looking at all the things you fixed up, I made SO many mistakes thank you for cleaning up after me :/ doesn't look like I saved you that much time in the end urgh, better luck next time hopefully!

sorry I couldn't figure out a better way to keep the stack an array of zval* , I am excited to see what the proper thing to do was!

thank you so much for putting so much time into this.

nah, you did a great progress. just maybe because I am more familiar with PHP7 internal. :)
anyway, are you still willing to participated in maintaining this ext?

@Sean-Der I fixed the memleaks, now I am going to close this PR.. thanks for all the thing you did, cheers!

@laruence working with you has been the best experience I have had with Open Source in a very long time. I can't thank you enough for how supporting/nice you have been. You have been awesome, if I run into you a conference I owe you a soda/beer etc...

I would love to continue helping with the extension! (Is that the most helpful thing I could be doing for PHP right now?)

If so I will work on getting bin/str support in 5+7 and take a look at all existing bugs and triage them. Otherwise, just tell me where I can be most useful! I am currently porting pecl-yaml and in contact with the maintainer, and things are going MUCH faster.

@Sean-Der great, I am going to invite you into this project :) thanks