Re: Life time of an object and Reference Var

From:

James Kanze <kanze.james@neuf.fr>

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Date:

7 May 2006 08:39:56 -0400

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maverick wrote:

Pls consider the following code:

class Foo
{
};

Foo& getFoo ( void )
{
Foo obj;
}

int main ( void )
{
Foo &ref = g();
}

My question is if the obj will be live untill ref? because
reference variables must be initialised when declared and g()
cannot return a 'dead' object.

You don't define a g(), so it's difficult to tell. I suspect
that you meant to use getFoo to initialize ref. In which
case... you don't have a return statement in getFoo, so you have
undefined behavior, because you fall off the end of a non void
function. If we suppose in addition that you meant for getFoo
to end with "return obj", then you are returning a reference to
a local object, which will be destructed as soon as you leave
the function.

Is a logical bug as not to return reference of local object or
no problem at all.

It's a very serious logical error; in simple cases like this,
most compilers will generate a warning, but there are more
complicated cases which the compiler cannot detect.

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