------- Comment #13 from bangerth at dealii dot org 2007-05-08 15:34 ------- (In reply to comment #12) > The summary says "g++ misses warning for & on temporary". But something that > is > always an error can be called a warning?
The point is that the standard doesn't call it an error, but undefined behavior. It's perfectly legal to keep a reference to a temporary, it may just not yield the result you had hoped for. W. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=986
