[cfe-dev] Small C++ query

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Monday, May 25, 2015, Keno Fischer <kfischer at college.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm confused by the following code snippet:
>
> #include <memory>
> void foo(int *x) { std::unique_ptr<int>(x); }
>
> both clang and gcc warn that this redefines x, but I don't understand why
> this
> is a declaration of x. I guess I would have expected a temporary
> unique_ptr that gets destructed immediately or an error. How come this
> actually defines a variable called x?
>

The C and C++ grammars allow redundant parenthesis around names being
declared (technically, declarators).
If you wish to construct a temporary, use the brace notation, aka uniform
initialization syntax.



>
> To give some background about where this came up, a user wanted to do
> C++> std::unique_ptr<int>(x);
> in my Clang-based interactive C++ REPL. Behind the scenes this gets
> transformed into the function above and then I try to insert a return
> statement on the last statement in the body to automatically grab the
> result. This works well in most cases but failed here because Clang thinks
> this is a variable declaration, so I'd like to understand why this is
> happening.
>
> Keno
>
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