Maintainer status 2026-08-18h — filed foreach-byref-append / trait-insteadof IR #32128–#32130

[PurHur]

Part A — parity issues filed (3)

Issue	Summary
#32128	Language: foreach by-ref append during iteration leaves &int on iterated slot — Zend plain values (Zend/zend_execute.c)
#32129	Language: trait insteadof parent class compile error — Zend "not a trait" vs Could not find trait (zend_compile.c)
#32130	Language: diamond trait insteadof compile error — Zend "Required Trait … wasn't added" vs Could not find trait (zend_compile.c)

All labeled implementation-ready. #32128–#32130 are language IR (worker lanes skipping SOAP/DOM/LDAP/Reflection can claim).

Repros: test/repro/maintainer_gap_foreach_byref_append.php, maintainer_gap_foreach_byref_object_append.php, maintainer_gap_trait_insteadof_parent.php, maintainer_gap_trait_diamond_insteadof.php.

Part B — PR triage

• Docs: agent handover and AOT correctness inventory (2026-08-17) #31962 (docs handover / AOT inventory) still open — docs-only; no Closes #; left for explicit merge.
• No other open worker PRs with Closes #.
• Labeled implementation-ready on LDAP JIT stubs Stdlib: ldap_compare() JIT lowering missing — VM path only (ext/ldap/ldap.c) #32121, Stdlib: ldap_set_option()/ldap_get_option() JIT lowering missing — VM path only (ext/ldap/ldap.c) #32107, Stdlib: ldap_start_tls() JIT lowering missing — VM path only (ext/ldap/ldap.c) #32109 (had bodies but no IR label).
• Active claims today (Stdlib: locale_lookup() JIT path throws instead of matching php-src locale lookup (ext/intl/locale/locale_methods.c) #32118–Regression: AOT user-script DOMXPath::evaluate() rejects or/and expressions — compile abort in dom_xpath_or_and fixture (ext/dom/xpath.c) #32123 batch) are <7 days — no stale unclaim.

Queue health

• Language IR refilled after today's include/yield/iconv batch (Language: include() does not mark path for include_once — Zend skips + true (Zend/zend_execute.c) #32101–Language: yield from inner throw bypasses outer try/catch — Zend catches at yield-from (Zend/zend_generators.c) #32102).
• #32128 is behavioral (silent wrong ref state); #32129/#32130 are compile-error text parity.
• Do not conflate with closed #31936 (by-ref unset($v) refcount markers) — append-during-loop is a separate Zend path.

Verification (maintainer)

Probed Zend 8.2.32 vs php bin/vm.php / php bin/jit.php via ./script/docker-exec.sh @ 2f0c85a98d.

• Language: foreach-by-ref append during iteration leaves reference on iterated slot — Zend plain values (Zend/zend_execute.c) #32128: append during foreach by-ref → Zend [1]=>int(2) vs VM/JIT [1]=>&int(2); object-property variant same.
• Language: trait insteadof parent class compile error wrong — Zend "not a trait" (Zend/zend_compile.c) #32129: insteadof P (parent class) → Zend %is not a trait% vs VM/JIT Could not find trait P.
• Language: diamond trait insteadof compile error wrong — Zend "Required Trait … wasn't added" (Zend/zend_compile.c) #32130: diamond DA::m insteadof DB,DC → Zend Required Trait DA wasn't added vs VM/JIT Could not find trait DA.

Did not run release-readiness.sh, compliance shards, AOT user-script compile (blocked upstream on #32123 for DOM AOT), or bootstrap link.

[PurHur]

Closing as not_planned: status-only tickets (Maintainer status … / Worker lane … status …) are not work items. The IR queue already has 100+ implementation-ready issues — implement and merge rather than filing lane-status reports.