The current situation is still not perfect, as the generator function itself
does not appear in the stack trace. This makes sense in some way, but it
would probably be more helpful if it would show up (with the bound arguments)
after the $generator->xyz() call. This could be misleading too though as the
function is not *really* called there.
Generators can now be cloned. I'm pretty sure that my current code does not
yet cover all the edge cases of cloning the execution context, so there are
probably a few bugs in there :)
During function calls arguments are pushed onto the stack. Now these are
backed up on yield and restored on resume. This requires memcpy'ing them,
but there doesn't seem to be any better way to do it.
Also this fixes the issue with exceptions thrown during function calls.
The missing piece is how one can find the next stack frame, which is
required for dtor'ing arguments pushed to the stack. As the generator
execute_data does not live on the stack one can't use it to figure out the
start of the next stack frame. So there must be some other method.
When no key is explicitely yielded PHP will used auto-incrementing keys
as a fallback. They behave the same as with arrays, i.e. the key is the
successor of the largest previously used integer key.
Keys are yielded using the
yield $key => $value
syntax. Currently this is implemented as a statement only and not as an
expression, because conflicts arise considering nesting and use in arrays:
yield yield $a => $b;
// could be either
yield (yield $a) => $b;
// or
yield (yield $a => $b);
Once I find some way to resolve these conflicts this should be available
as an expression too.
Also the key yielding code is rather copy-and-past-y for the value yielding
code, so that should be factored out.
If the generator is used as a coroutine it often doesn't make sense to yield
anything. In this case one can simply receive values using
$value = yield;
The yield here will simply yield NULL.
Yield now is an expression and the return value is the value passed to
$generator->send(). By default (i.e. if ->next() is called) the value is
NULL.
Unlike in Python ->send() can be run without priming the generator with a
->next() call first.
To keep things clean two new functions are introduced:
zend_clean_and_cache_symbol_table(HashTable *symbol_table)
zend_free_compiled_variables(zval ***CVs, int num)
If the generator is closed before it has finished running, it may happen
that some FREE or SWITCH_FREE opcodes haven't been executed and memory is
leaked.
This fixes it by walking the brk_cont_array and manually freeing the
variables.
For generators ZEND_RETURN directly calls ZEND_VM_RETURN(), thus passing
execution back to the caller (zend_generator_resume).
This commit also adds a check that only return; is used in generators and
not return $value;.
This adds another function execute_ex(), which accepts a zend_execute_data
struct to run (contrary to execute(), which accepts a zend_op_array from
which it initialized the execute_data).
This needs a bit more cleanup.
Generators need to switch the execute_data very often. If the execute_data
is allocated on the VM stack this operation would require to always copy
the structure (which is quite large). That's why the execution context is
allocated on the heap instead (only for generators obviously).
The Generator class now uses a zend_generator struct, so it'll be able to
store additional info.
This commit also ensures that Generator cannot be directly instantiated
and extended. The error tests are now in a separate folder from the
(yet-to-come) functional tests.
Generator functions have to specify the * (asterix) modifier after the
function keyword. If they do so the ZEND_ACC_GENERATOR flag is added to
the fn_flags.
What happens here is trivial long overflow. Despite the bug attracted
attention on windows, the same story is on linux. Just wait for a big
anough bucket->key . The linux test had %i to check the key value
which should be %d all the way.
