- removed deprecated returning value of new by reference

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/program/lib/PEAR.php b/program/lib/PEAR.php
index 9c2c67bcf..61862a956 100644
--- a/program/lib/PEAR.php
+++ b/program/lib/PEAR.php
@@ -560,10 +560,10 @@ class PEAR
             $ec = 'PEAR_Error';
         }
         if ($skipmsg) {
-            $a = &new $ec($code, $mode, $options, $userinfo);
+            $a = new $ec($code, $mode, $options, $userinfo);
             return $a;
         } else {
-            $a = &new $ec($message, $code, $mode, $options, $userinfo);
+            $a = new $ec($message, $code, $mode, $options, $userinfo);
             return $a;
         }
     }