Re: Overloading on rvalue and lvalue references

From:
David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:59:48 CST
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on Sat Sep 12 2009, SG <s.gesemann-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

On 11 Sep., 20:59, Paul Bibbings wrote:

I am just starting to come to grips with rvalue references and how
they may be applied in several of the expected 'conventional' uses.
However, in some cases I find I have doubts based on an uncertainty
as to how well my compiler (gcc-4.3.2, Cygwin) actually implements
the current C++0x proposals for rvalue refs


It doesn't, actually. The following code still compiles with GCC 4.3
and GCC 4.4 in C++0x-mode but is NOT allowed anymore for safety
reasons

    int main() {
       int i = 42;
       int&& r = i; // rv-ref to lvalue, ill-formed in C++0x
    }

See N2812 for an introduction and N2844 for a detailed wording.


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Also a pretty good series of articles at http://cpp-next.com that cover
these topics

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