[Following up, now that I'm actually subscribed to this distribution list] I've filed bug https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65338 to track this issue. The root cause of the AV is when more than one module hooks the interned strings, a "wrong" value will be left in CG(interned_strings_start), which the Zend core thinks contains the value that it alloc'd during zend_interned_strings_init(). More details are in the bug. I've added a potential fix for the Zend folks to consider. It's slightly less harsh than the workaround provided by Jan. ;) Thx! --E.