I ran into a hard to spot bug the other day and decided to share it. I worked on some code for a while and then fired up my browser to test it. I would be using Xdebug straight from Eclipse PDT, but I can't get it to work with the latest php snapshots for Windows. Anyway, when I went to test it, there was no output. It turns out that php-cgi had segfaulted. I spent the better half of a day trying to figure out the problem. When I thought I had figured it out, I would try to write up a test script for just that problem, and all of them ran just fine. Just when I was about to give up, I found the problem in this little class I was sure couldn't be wrong.

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