[cfe-dev] GCC's "Temporaries May Vanish Before You Expect"

[Jordan Rose]

On Sep 12, 2012, at 17:08 , Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:

> Does that mean that:
> 
> doSomething(StrRef.str().c_str());
> 
> is unsafe?
> 
> because I've seen a couple of those around.

No, that's fine. Temporaries are destroyed "at the end of a full-expression", which is basically "the outermost expression". So the temporary will stay live until the call to doSomething completes.


>>  I->getAs<CFGStmt>()
>> 
>> and
>> 
>>  dyn_cast<CFGStmt>(&*I)
>> 
>> , the latter of which is slightly more ugly.
> 
> Would it be possible to make dyn_cast a bit smarter so that it will
> look into an iterator's member typedefs and automatically do the
> trivial &* stuff itself?

In theory, yes. In practice, I'm not sure if we want simplify_type to be that smart. I haven't thought it through, though.