I have a PHP file encoded using IonCube Encoder GUI 13.0.2. It is a PHP 8.2.4 code that runs fine unencoded, but crashes badly when encoded - causing a message similar to this (the second number varies, and the first one is my memory_limit of 512M):
Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 19543359488 bytes)
The file was encoded using the Encoder GUI app under Windows 10 and the error is present on the same development machine (using PHP's own webserver) and also on a production server running Debian/Apache 2.4 and PHP 8.2.14.
The encoded/unencoded file was tested under identical circumstances and input parameters (guaranteed).
The Encoder can produce ANSI or binary outputs - I've tried both of them with the same result.
I've tried with a version of the file with stripped comments/whitespaces (using php_strip_whitespace()). Same result.
I've tried to leave the problematic file unencoded (all others encoded) - but then the webserver dies immediately without any messages (strange behavior, this is true on both dev/production machines).
I've contacted IonCube support, but my ticket is still unresolved.
I can see that years ago (2014), the ionCube Loaders were fixed for infinite loop issues: https://www.ioncube.com/sa/release-notes.php
Are there someone other users with similar problems and what could I do to solve them?
Thanks in advance!