Re: g++ 2.95 bug: template invalidates code

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>]

On Aug 20, 1999, "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

>> b11.cc:18: attempt to take address of bit-field structure member `X::t'

> Thanks for your bug report. I believe this diagnosis is correct. The
> compiler detects that bool operator!=<T>(const T& x, const T& y); is a
> candidate for the call to !=. It turns out to be a better candidate
> than anything else, so it is selected by overload resolution. However,
> it is ill-formed to pass a bitfield by reference, hence the error.

It is my understanding that it would only be an error if the reference
was to a non-const type.  Since it is `const T&', a temporary should
be created [dcl.init.ref]/10.

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