[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11780: Memory Leak in plugins_api

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#11780: Memory Leak in plugins_api
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 Reporter:  hakre         |       Owner:             
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new        
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.0        
Component:  General       |     Version:  3.0        
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  needs-patch
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Comment(by hakre):

 It's common in WP, isn't?
 {{{
 function &get_role( $role )
 function &get_manifest()
 function &get_categories( $args = '' )
 function &get_category( $category, $output = OBJECT, $filter = 'raw' )
 function &get_tags( $args = '' )
 function &get_tag( $tag, $output = OBJECT, $filter = 'raw' )
 function &get_comment(&$comment, $output = OBJECT)
 function &separate_comments(&$comments)
 function &get_translations_for_domain( $domain )
 function &get_children($args = '', $output = OBJECT)
 function &get_post(&$post, $output = OBJECT, $filter = 'raw')
 function &get_page(&$page, $output = OBJECT, $filter = 'raw')
 ...
 }}}

 this list could be extended, to only name some. Please compare to those
 functions, I think they do not do that just for fun.

 From the tests/docs I know of there are no negative impacts in PHP5 using
 PHP4-reference-styled code. PHP5 does not have any incompability changes
 on that one, [http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.incompatible.php it
 has others]. It was in the beginning of PHP5 (consumed more memory) but
 from what I know that does not count any longer, we had run some tests
 some time ago (2 years or so). If I should be false, in other tickets from
 decisions have been made (stating this for correctness sake).

 I asked for clarification by core developers in this ticket: #11663

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