Allow loading FFI bindings through ffi.preload directive

Define OBJ_PROP_TO_OFFSET() using XtOffsetOf()

This avoids null pointer arithmetic UB.

Allow throwing exception while loading parent class

This is a fix for symfony/symfony#32995.

The behavior is:

* Throwing exception when loading parent/interface is allowed

Allow throwing exception while loading parent class

This is a fix for symfony/symfony#32995.

The behavior is:

* Throwing exception when loading parent/interface is allowed
(and we will also throw one if the class is simply not found).
* If this happens, the bucket key for the class is reset, so
it's possibly to try registering the same class again.
* However, if the class has already been used due to a variance
obligation, the exception is upgraded to a fatal error, as we
cannot safely unregister the class stub anymore.

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Only allow "nearly linked" classes for parent/interface

The requirements for parent/interface are difference than for the
variance checks in type declarations. The latter can work on ful

Only allow "nearly linked" classes for parent/interface

The requirements for parent/interface are difference than for the
variance checks in type declarations. The latter can work on fully
unlinked classes, but the former need inheritance to be essentially
finished, only variance checks may still be outstanding.

Adding a new flag for this because we have lots of space, but we
could also represent these "inheritance states" more compactly in
the future.

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Free two bits in fn_flags by merging ZEND_ACC_HEAP_RT_CACHE/ZEND_ACC_USER_ARG_INFO and ZEND_ACC_DONE_PASS_TWO/ZEND_ACC_ARENA_ALLOCATED that may be used only for user/internal functions

Fixed information about unused flags

Relax closure $this unbinding deprecation

Only deprecate unbinding of $this from a closure if $this is
syntactically used within the closure.

This is desired to support Laravel'

Relax closure $this unbinding deprecation

Only deprecate unbinding of $this from a closure if $this is
syntactically used within the closure.

This is desired to support Laravel's macro system, see laravel/framework#29482.

This should still allow us to implement the performance improvements
we're interested in for PHP 8, without breaking existing use-cases.

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Use run-time cache to avoid repeatable hash lookups in ZEND_DECLARE_CLASS_DELAYED

Deprecate alternative array access syntax

RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_curly_braces_array_access

Replace ZEND_ASSIGN_ADD (and others) by ZEND_ASSIGN_OP, ZEND_ASSIGN_DIM_OP, ZEND_ASSGIN_OBJ_OP and ZEND_ASSIGN_STATIC_PROP_OP

Optimization of INC/DEC helpers

Fix arginfo leak in disable_functions

Arginfo is allocated if types are used, we need to free it.

Keep lowercased parent class name as second argument of DECLARE_CLASS to avoid extra work at run-time

Make ZEND_SEND_* flags unsigned

These may be shifted to the limit for the arg mask.

Fix shift UB in constants

We were shifting out the top bit of a signed integer.

Support full variance if autoloading is used

Keep track of delayed variance obligations and check them after
linking a class is otherwise finished. Obligations may either be
unresolv

Support full variance if autoloading is used

Keep track of delayed variance obligations and check them after
linking a class is otherwise finished. Obligations may either be
unresolved method compatibility (because the necessecary classes
aren't available yet) or open parent/interface dependencies. The
latter occur because we allow the use of not fully linked classes
as parents/interfaces now.

An important aspect of the implementation is we do not require
classes involved in variance checks to be fully linked in order for
the class to be fully linked. Because the involved types do have to
exist in the class table (as partially linked classes) and we do
check these for correct variance, we have the guarantee that either
those classes will successfully link lateron or generate an error,
but there is no way to actually use them until that point and as
such no possibility of violating the variance contract. This is
important because it ensures that a class declaration always either
errors or will produce an immediately usable class afterwards --
there are no cases where the finalization of the class declaration
has to be delayed until a later time, as earlier variants of this
patch did.

Because variance checks deal with classes in various stages of
linking, we need to use a special instanceof implementation that
supports this, and also introduce finer-grained flags that tell us
which parts have been linked already and which haven't.

Class autoloading for variance checks is delayed into a separate
stage after the class is otherwise linked and before delayed
variance obligations are processed. This separation is needed to
handle cases like A extends B extends C, where B is the autoload
root, but C is required to check variance. This could end up
loading C while the class structure of B is in an inconsistent
state.

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Register class before fetching parent

We want the class declaration to be available while compiling the
parent class.

Better hot/cold code splitting

Forbid use of not fully linked classes

Revert "Rename *.l files to *.re"

This reverts commit 969047749d33bb88a0573aa91a57e2070335111a.

Rename *.l files to *.re

This syncs PHP lexer files to all use *.re extension. The *.re files are
processed with the RE2C tool.

Removed ability to compile PHP without EX(run_time_cache). ZEND_EX_USE_RUN_TIME_CACHE was always defined.

Deprecate left-associative ternary

Deprecate nesting ternary operators without explicit parentheses.

RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_associativity

Implement arrow functions

Per RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arrow_functions_v2

Co-authored-by: Levi Morrison <levim@php.net>
Co-authored-by: Bob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com>

Also, use ZEND_ACC_PRELOADED for classes