Description:
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If I play with references, I found php doesn't properly free
all memory in arrays with references ... for example don't free all
memory in local variables of function. By repeating calling that
function, leak can lead to consumation of all allowed memory.

BTW, submited also as http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63559

Reproduce code:
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<?php

function testLeak()
{
    $a=array("jablka","hrusky","petr"=>"zeli");
    foreach($a as $k=>$v) {
        $b[$k]=&$a;
        $b[$k]['names']=&$a;
    }
    return($b);
}

echo memory_get_usage()."\n";
for($i=0;$i<200000;$i++) {
  testLeak();
  echo memory_get_usage()."\n";
}

 ?>

Expected result:
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Something as 
20720
21816
22144
22144
22144
....
22144
22144
22144

Actual result:
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20720
21816
22144
.....
.....
.....
16775400
16775728
16776056
16776384

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to
allocate
32 bytes) in /castle/hkmaly/programy/php/test_leak.php on line 6

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

circular references, blaa blaa, search the bug db for couple of hundred
other similar bug reports. (Won't fix)

Couple of hundred ? I don't found ANYTHING with
http://bugs.php.net/search.php?search_for=circular+references&boolean=1&
limit=10&order_by=&direction=ASC&cmd=display&status=All&php_os=&phpver=&
assign=&author_email=&bug_age=
and only one which look similar with
http://bugs.php.net/search.php?search_for=circular+references&boolean=0&
limit=10&order_by=&direction=ASC&cmd=display&status=All&bug_type%5B%5D=S
cripting+Engine+problem&php_os=&phpver=&assign=&author_email=&bug_age=0
... maybee your bug-finding system needs some work.

That similar one is http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=5620 with answer
"leaking memory is the intended behaviour using circular references" and
"PHP does not do circular references." ... and that leak even has NOT
circular references - only multiple references to same array.
(On the other hand, original code, before I tried to found minimal case,
HAS circular references).

Also, there are no "circular references" in PHP manual and "reference
counting" is only in user contributed note starting "I had trouble
digging this out, ...".
I didn't know I must read manual for zend ...

Can you tell me more ? Like some other, more simmilar bug number, if
it's better in PHP 5, will be in PHP 6 or if I just must learn perl (or
lisp) ?