primitives seem to be passed via reference instead of by value under some conditions when JIT is enabled on windows

[terrafrost]

Description

The following code:

$a = [2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,3,0,0,32,2147483584,127];
echo crc32(json_encode(bitwise_small_split($a))) . "\n";
echo crc32(json_encode(bitwise_small_split($a))) . "\n";
echo crc32(json_encode(bitwise_small_split($a))) . "\n";
echo crc32(json_encode(bitwise_small_split($a))) . "\n";

function bitwise_small_split($val)
{
    $split = 8;
    $vals = [];

    $mask = (1 << $split) - 1;

    $i = $overflow = 0;
    $len = count($val);
    $val[] = 0;
    $remaining = 31;

    while ($i != $len) {
        $digit = $val[$i] & $mask;

        $val[$i] >>= $split;
        if (!$overflow) {
            $remaining -= $split;
            $overflow = $split <= $remaining ? 0 : $split - $remaining;

            if (!$remaining) {
                $i++;
                $remaining = 31;
                $overflow = 0;
            }
        } elseif (++$i != $len) {
            $tempmask = (1 << $overflow) - 1;
            $digit |= ($val[$i] & $tempmask) << $remaining;
            $val[$i] >>= $overflow;
            $remaining = 31 - $overflow;
            $overflow = $split <= $remaining ? 0 : $split - $remaining;
        }

        $vals[] = $digit;
    }

    while ($vals[count($vals) - 1] == 0) {
        unset($vals[count($vals) - 1]);
    }

    return array_reverse($vals);
}

With this php.ini:

zend_extension = C:/php/ext/php_opcache.dll

[opcache]
opcache.enable=1
opcache.enable_cli=1
opcache.memory_consumption=128
opcache.interned_strings_buffer=16
opcache.max_accelerated_files=100000
opcache.jit_buffer_size=128M
opcache.jit=tracing

Resulted in this output:

48207660
48207660
1497456976
1497456976

But I expected this output instead:

48207660
48207660
48207660
48207660

I get the expected output when I set opcache.enable to 0 in the php.ini but not when it's set to 1.

Note that sometimes I need to run the PHP file twice before the issue starts appearing. Also, this appears to only be a problem on Windows as I was unable to duplicate the issue with https://github.com/phpseclib/docker-php/tree/8.2jit

PHP Version

PHP 8.2.9

Operating System

Windows 11

[nielsdos]

What happens if you enable opcache and only disable JIT? I suspect the real issue might be in the JIT instead of opcache.

[terrafrost]

@nielsdos - good call. The following php.ini does not demonstrate the problem:

[opcache]
opcache.enable=1
opcache.enable_cli=1

I've updated my post accordingly.

[gmutinel]

Same thing with 8.1.23 on Win11, had to force jit off with

opcache.jit=off

[parallels999]

Same thing with 8.1.23 on Win11, had to force jit off with

opcache.jit=off

Me too, on Win 10 with 8.2