Oct 21, 2026, 4:12 PMPHP is a million or so lines of C code that pervasively used alloc functions that longjmp() on failure, so OOM bailout creates corrupted state. the fix uses fallible allocs and a global please-return-early OOM flag but requires touching Everything. completeness is impossible 😰😰😰
Oct 21, 2026, 4:15 PMI hope you enjoyed my attempt to compress 1500 words about what I learned from skimming the patch into 280 characters, that was hellish, it's really hard not to sound like an LLM when you do this
Oct 21, 2026, 4:16 PMuncompressed version with too much text to fit in the alt text field, sorry
Oct 21, 2026, 6:21 PM@hikari the content does fit in an alt-text.
You're welcome.
Oct 21, 2026, 9:53 PM@hikari yikes 😬
Oct 21, 2026, 6:55 PM@hikari One thing PHP bashers have never quite realised is how much of it is quite a thin wrapper around C. Some functions even have the same names.