Uh? I've no idea what you mean here? Which file are you talking about?

[filename] = php.ini ;-)

Well, it's not Xdebug parsing php.ini, so I don't know why you bring it up here? Also, the php.ini that you've attached has on line 2042:

;xdebug.collect_vars = "Off"

which has no "false" in it at all...

The ";" character in front of line is a character to tag line as a comment line. PHP internal .ini-file parser is recognizing this and is skipping such lines.

php_xdebug-2.1.4-5.3-vc9.dll is working fine with the provided PHP.INI. I just changed to new XDEBUG version.

This leads me to the conclusion XDEBUG is interpreting at least the [XDebug] section in PHP.INI itself and is stumbling over this parameter (may bee this changed in new version) AND does not recognize/accept comment lines.

That's why I raised issue

It's still not Xdebug doing the parsing... I don't think I can help you with this.

Ok, let us agree it's a magic mysterious miracle appearing only to damned sorcerer's apprentice trying to use the new XDebug version in XAMPP universe.

It was good to use XDebug as long as it worked!

Please close issue record. Thank you for your cooperation.