--TEST-- Bug #43495 (array_merge_recursive() crashes with recursive arrays) --FILE-- array("key2"=>array())); $a["key1"]["key2"]["key3"]=&$a; $b=array("key1"=>array("key2"=>array())); $b["key1"]["key2"]["key3"]=&$b; try { array_merge_recursive($a,$b); } catch (\Error $e) { echo $e->getMessage() . "\n"; } /* Break recursion */ $a["key1"]["key2"]["key3"] = null; $b["key1"]["key2"]["key3"] = null; ?> --EXPECT-- Recursion detected