Re: anonymous array of strings // ("taking address of temporary" - how long is temporary valid?)

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:51:53 +0100
Message-ID:
<13r2jt2i5opra2d@corp.supernews.com>
* anon.asdf@gmail.com:

On 11 Feb., 16:06, anon.asdf wrote:

Hello!

1) ===============================
When trying to define an array of std::string ...

func( (std::string []) { std::string("ab"), std::string("cd"),
std::string("ef") } , 3 );

void func(std::string arr[], int n)
{
    while ((--n) >= 0) {
        std::cout << arr[n];
    }

}


Interestingly, the following works fine:

//===================================
#include <iostream>

void func3(char* arr[], int n);

int main(void)
{
    func3((char* []){"ab", "cd", "ef"}, 3);
    return 0;
}

void func3(char* arr[], int n)
{
    while ((--n) >= 0) {
        std::cout << arr[n];
    }
    std::cout << std::endl;
}
//===================================


<quote>
V:\> gnuc vc_project.cpp
vc_project.cpp: In function `int main()':
vc_project.cpp:7: error: ISO C++ forbids compound-literals

V:\> msvc vc_project.cpp
vc_project.cpp
vc_project.cpp(7) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ')' before '{'
vc_project.cpp(7) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
vc_project.cpp(7) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '{'
vc_project.cpp(7) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '}'
vc_project.cpp(7) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before ','
vc_project.cpp(7) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'

V:\>_
</quote>

Can it be similarly adapted for std::string, without naming an array
variable?


No.

It seems the compiler+options you're using allows the above as an extension.

It might be that it's syntax that has been introduced in C99, but it's
not C++.

Cheers, & hth.,

- Alf

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