Has PHP's attitude towards exceptions changed in version 5.4.10? [closed]

Question

The following would work in PHP 5.3, but not in PHP 5.4.10.

throw new Custom_Exception();

class Custom_Exception extends Exception {}

PHP 5.4.10 would respond with the following fatal error:

Class 'Custom_Exception' not found in ...

Does anyone know why?

p.s. Moving the class definition above the throw statement fixes it.

Answer 1

I put your code into a file called test.php, and downloaded php-5.4.10

When I execute:

php -c php.ini-development -f test.php

I see the following output:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Custom_Exception' in test.php:3
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in test.php on line 3

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Custom_Exception' in test.php:3
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in test.php on line 3

I believe you have a configuration issue. Are you testing from the command-line?

Edit:

I also compared do_bind_inherited_class in zend_compile.c for both versions.

zend_compile.c from 5.3

zend_compile.c from 5.4.10

It looks like they only added support for traits.

My answer is: No, I do not believe the attitude has changed.