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Bug #53267 Pass by reference on "new" throws no deprecation notice
Submitted: 2010-11-08 20:26 UTC Modified: 2010-11-08 22:02 UTC
From: enygma at phpdeveloper dot org Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.3.3 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-11-08 20:26 UTC] enygma at phpdeveloper dot org
Description:
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I don't know if this is a documentation bug or an error in PHP, but I thought I'd bring it up. There's no warning raised when the pass by reference is used on a "new" in a class definition in PHP 5.3.3 (multiple testers).

Docs are here: http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php

Test script:
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Example code:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL|E_DEPRECATED);
class MyClass { }
$mc = &new MyClass();
?>

Expected result:
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Expected:
Deprecated notice

Actual result:
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Actual:
No warning raised

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 [2010-11-08 21:37 UTC] felipe@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2010-11-08 21:37 UTC] felipe@php.net
It issues an E_DEPRECATED, but in compile-time... E_DEPRECATED is not in the default error_reporting setting, so it doesn't displays the deprecated message.

$ sapi/cli/php -derror_reporting=E_DEPRECATED foo.php

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in ...
 [2010-11-08 22:02 UTC] enygma at phpdeveloper dot org
One problem with that...I have another example that uses ereg (it's a PHP 5.3 examples thing) and at E_ALL I *do* get a deprecated message on the same system. It's a CentOS virtual instance with the PHP packages installed.
 
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