From 95821b7a04f60ea70be6b997139f31dbaeee75f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olly Betts
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 02:19:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Note that technique relying on call-time pass by reference
won't work with PHP 5.4.
git-svn-id: https://swig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/swig/trunk@13094 626c5289-ae23-0410-ae9c-e8d60b6d4f22
---
Doc/Manual/Php.html | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Doc/Manual/Php.html b/Doc/Manual/Php.html
index 659fb0a89..76031d07e 100644
--- a/Doc/Manual/Php.html
+++ b/Doc/Manual/Php.html
@@ -506,6 +506,12 @@ this, one needs to include phppointers.i which defines the
named typemap REFERENCE.
+
+However, this relies on call-time pass-by-reference, which has been
+deprecated in PHP for some time, and was finally removed in PHP 5.4.
+So you should avoid creating new wrappers which rely on this approach.
+
+
%module example
%include "phppointers.i"