Re: [Swig-devel] PHP 5.5

[Miklos V. <vm...@vm...>]

Hi William,

[ Long time no see. :-) ]

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 09:49:12AM +0000, William S Fulton <ws...@fu...> wrote:
> PHP 5.5 seems to be the default across new Linux distributions. I'd like
> SWIG 3 to be ready for this.
> 
> Having run the tests, it looks like there is one simple problem in the
> pointer example:
> 
> Fatal error: Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed in
> /home/william/swig/github/swig/Examples/php/pointer/runme.php on line 18
> 
> What would the new calling syntax be? Probably the example can simply be
> fixed?

The error itself is easy to fix, as long as the code is PHP-only:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8971261/php-5-4-call-time-pass-by-reference-easy-fix-available

I'll try to figure out what is the PHP API equivalent of declaring a
parameter as a reference.

Miklos