Re: Revistiing using return value as reference
On 2007-12-26 06:01, johanatan wrote:
On Dec 25, 3:00 pm, "Jim Langston" <tazmas...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
Foo& Bar( int Val )
{
return Foo( Val );
}
Will not work, can not convert Foo to Foo&
Should work, but not a very useful thing to do as local copy dies
immediately.
Should not work, a reference can not bind to a rvalue.
Foo Bar( int Val )
{
return Foo( Val );
}
int main()
{
Foo& Inst = Bar( 10 );
}
Does not work, same thing, can not convert Foo to Foo&.
Should also work. Something else is going on as that syntax is
compiling fine in my compiler.
Get a new compiler. Once again, you can not bind a reference to a rvalue.
Foo& Bar(int Val )
{
Foo Temp( Val );
return Foo( Val );
}
I think you meant to return Temp, no? That too should work, but as
with #1, isn't very useful.
Invoking undefined behaviour I would think.
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