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Bug #29242 Deep recursion crashes PHP
Submitted: 2004-07-18 11:57 UTC Modified: 2004-07-18 18:44 UTC
Votes:6
Avg. Score:4.3 ± 0.5
Reproduced:6 of 6 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (16.7%)
Same OS:2 (33.3%)
From: miancule at yahoo dot com Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 4.3.7 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2004-07-18 11:57 UTC] miancule at yahoo dot com
Description:
------------
PHP 4.3.7
Apache 2.0.49
Windows XP

Deep recursion crashes the Apache process with status = 128.

[Sun Jul 18 12:29:08 2004] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 128 -- Restarting.

It seems the error occurs at somehow random recursion levels (it can go from recursion level 100 to 1000).

I understand that a stack overflow might occur, but for the sample below a decent implementation should allow very large recursion depths.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
function recurse($count)
{
  echo $count.'<br/>';
  if ($count < 10000)
    recurse(++$count);
}
recurse(0);
die 'No crash';
?>

Expected result:
----------------
0
1
..
999
No crash

Actual result:
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No output (because the server process is killed prematurely).

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