On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 2:41 PM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals,
>
> I plan to disable the checking of arginfo argument types for internal
> functions in https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4232 (PHP 8 only). This
> is necessary to avoid duplicate type checks in both arginfo and zpp. Once
> this lands, PRs to add arginfo types (available through reflection) to
> internal functions will be accepted.
>
> As a sanity check, debug builds will make sure that the function call
> either throws or passes arginfo type checks -- this will help avoid the
> additional of arginfo types that are not correct enforced by the
> implementation.
>
These changes have now landed. This means that arginfo types (both argument
and return) can now be added to internal functions. See
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/227a9c75ec01800cb2b02d58ab74ec72abccf478
for a small sample. PRs are welcome :)
Nikita
