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Bug #14651 PHP close tag (?>) in a comment acts as a close; this did not happen in 4.0.x
Submitted: 2001-12-21 15:32 UTC Modified: 2001-12-21 16:09 UTC
From: mike at m2wh dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 4.1.0 OS: FreeBSD 3.4-REL
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-12-21 15:32 UTC] mike at m2wh dot com 
In 4.0.x, you could do something like:

<?
echo "hi"; //<does this echo hi?>
?>

and it would work fine.

In 4.1.0 this causes a parse error on the last line of the script.

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 [2001-12-21 16:09 UTC] sander@php.net 
Indeed, this is not a bug.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.comments.php
This hasn't changed in 4.1.0.
 
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