[php-src] Issue #20906: Assertion failure in zif_highlight_string when called in destructor

[email protected] (vi3tL0u1s)
Newsgroups php.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Issue: https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/20906
Author: vi3tL0u1s

### Description

The following code:

```php
<?php
class A {
    function __destruct() {
        highlight_string("<?php", true);
        trigger_error("");
        ob_start(function () use (&$c) { $c = new A; return '/'; }, 1);
        $c = new A;
        unset($c);
        ob_start(function &() use (&$c) { $c = new A; return '/'; }, 1);
    }
}
new A;
```

Resulted in this output:
```
/php: /path/to/php-src/ext/standard/basic_functions.c:1837: zif_highlight_string: Assertion `zval_get_type(&(*(return_value))) == 6' failed.
Aborted
```

## Commit

`2813f62476f6fb1b8d59f25527dbf2953fdf69a7`

## Configurations

```
./configure --enable-debug --enable-address-sanitizer --disable-shared --with-pic --enable-mbstring --with-zlib
```


### PHP Version

```plain
PHP 8.6.0-dev (cli) (built: Jan 11 2026 13:54:51) (NTS DEBUG)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.6.0-dev, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.6.0-dev, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies
```

### Operating System

Ubuntu 22.04
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