Fixed bugs #29767 and #31683 (__get and __set methods must not modify property name).

- Fixed bug #29183 (Undefined symbol zend_check_private with Solaris CC)

- Fixed Bug #30562 Segmentation fault with __call()

- Change zend_object_handlers->get_method() to allow aggregation for internal classes

Simplify/Optmize magic method calls (__get/__set/__call/__clone/__destruct)

Fix bug in handling of protected properties

__set and __get will be called not only when variable doesn't exist but also when it's
invisible

- Nuke empty_string. It is a reminanent from the time where RETURN_FALSE()
used to return "" and not bool(false). It's not worth keeping it because
STR_FREE() and zval_dtor() always have

- Nuke empty_string. It is a reminanent from the time where RETURN_FALSE()
used to return "" and not bool(false). It's not worth keeping it because
STR_FREE() and zval_dtor() always have to check for it and it slows down
the general case. In addition, it seems that empty_string has been abused
quite a lot, and was used not only for setting zval's but generally in
PHP code instead of "", which wasn't the intention. Last but not least,
nuking empty_string should improve stability as I doubt every place
correctly checked if they are not mistakenly erealloc()'ing it or
calling efree() on it.
NOTE: Some code is probably broken. Each extension maintainer should
check and see that my changes are OK. Also, I haven't had time to touch
PECL yet. Will try and do it tomorrow.

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be consistent with write_dimension

fix #28957

Fix leak on systems where alloca isn't really alloca.

Add count_elements handler for overloaded objects.

- Fix bug #26441 (When __set() returned a value it corrupted it)

API change for read_property:
instead of bool silent it now gets fetch type
This can be used for creating proxy objects for write contexts

- Support Cast operator in convert_to_* so that we support internal
- extensions such as SimpleXML. This is for Sterling.

- This was too strict.

- Check return-by-reference bit when implementing interface prototypes
- Add infrastructure for built-in functions to hint whether they
return by reference or not. It is NOT currently used

- Check return-by-reference bit when implementing interface prototypes
- Add infrastructure for built-in functions to hint whether they
return by reference or not. It is NOT currently used for anything,
except for interface prototypes (you can use it to request that the
function that implements your prototype returns by reference or
doesn't return by reference).
For downwards compatibility - by default, interface prototypes are
agnostic as to whether the function that implements them returns
by reference or not. Use ZEND_BEGIN_ARG_INFO_EX() with
ZEND_RETURN_VALUE/ZEND_RETURN_REFERENCE to change that.
- Fix ArrayAccess::getOffset() to conduct additional checks.
If your getOffset() should work with multidimensional arrays - it
must return by reference.

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Fix write-mode of overloaded objects when using array dimensions

- Clean garbage (delete was nuked a long time ago)

Expose zend_std_call_user_call(), needed for implementation of things like
__call handlers.

- Happy new year and PHP 5 for rest of the files too..
# Should the LICENSE and Zend/LICENSE dates be updated too?

Bug #24608 - fix interaction between __accessors and get_property_ptr

- Fixed var_export() to show public, protected and private modifiers properly.
- Exported (un)mangle_property_name.

Fix __tostring() and concatenation

Fixed bug #26675 (Segfault on ArrayAccess use)
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