[cfe-dev] interesting c++ puzzle

[Krzysztof Parzyszek]

On 1/16/2013 3:04 PM, reed kotler wrote:
>
> This seems illogical to me. It does not call the copy constructor in
> 5.cpp but in 6.cpp it tails
> to compile because it can't find a valid copy constructor.

IIRC, according to the standard, this
   B b = f(1);
is equivalent to
   B b(f(1));

I suppose the compiler refuses to treat f(1) as an object of type B&, 
since it's a temporary.  Again, if I remember things correctly...

-Krzysztof


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