diff --git a/bin/gen_stub.php b/bin/gen_stub.php
index 6014fedb..09c28178 100755
--- a/bin/gen_stub.php
+++ b/bin/gen_stub.php
@@ -4581,6 +4581,7 @@ class DocCommentTag {
 
     /** @return DocCommentTag[] */
     public static function parseDocComments(array $comments): array {
+        return [];
         $tags = [];
         foreach ($comments as $comment) {
             if (!($comment instanceof DocComment)) {
diff --git a/src/Php/Preprocessor.php b/src/Php/Preprocessor.php
index 92ea303c..ae554aab 100644
--- a/src/Php/Preprocessor.php
+++ b/src/Php/Preprocessor.php
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ class Preprocessor extends CompilerBase
                 case 'Stmt_Use':
                 case 'Stmt_Const':
                 case 'Stmt_Interface':
+                case 'Stmt_Nop':
                     break;
                 default:
                     $this->fatalError($v, 'Unsupported statement: ' . $type);
diff --git a/src/Php/Translator.php b/src/Php/Translator.php
index 07c2feaa..49a7b877 100644
--- a/src/Php/Translator.php
+++ b/src/Php/Translator.php
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ class Translator extends Preprocessor
                 case 'Stmt_Interface':
                     $this->parseInterface($v) . PHP_EOL;
                     break;
+                case 'Stmt_Nop':
+                    break;
                 default:
                     abort($v);
             }
diff --git a/tests/core/classes/class_abstract.phpt b/tests/core/classes/class_abstract.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e652019d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/core/classes/class_abstract.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+--TEST--
+ZE2 An abstract class cannot be instantiated
+--FILE--
+<?php
+
+abstract class base {
+    function show() {
+        echo "base\n";
+    }
+}
+
+class derived extends base {
+}
+
+function main() {
+    $t = new derived();
+    $t->show();
+
+    $t = new base();
+    $t->show();
+
+    echo "Done\n"; // shouldn't be displayed
+}
+?>
+--EXPECTF--
+base
+
+Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot instantiate abstract class base in %s:%d
+Stack trace:
+#0 Unknown(0) : %s
+#1 {main}
+  thrown in %s on line %d