Re: Life time of an object and Reference Var
maverick wrote:
> Sorry for not defining g(). But let me do it as follows:
> foo& g()
> {
> foo local;
> return local;
> }
As has already been pointed out, this will result in undefined
behavior as soon as you use the reference you return. Most
compilers will warn you.
> and lets also add a member var to class Foo say i of int type--
> class Foo
> {
> int i;
> Foo ( int j = 0 ) : i(j){}
> };
> now let say,
> int main()
> {
> Foo& ref = g();
> ref.i = 10; //?????CORE???
> }
> but it never core dumps.
So. It's undefined behavior. Anything can happen. It might
even seem to work.
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