Re: copy ctor not called

[Jeroen Wijnhout <Jeroen dot Wijnhout at kdemail dot net>]

On Thursday 07 July 2005 02:04 pm, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:
> Hi Jeroen,
>
> >According to your statement they are wrong.
>
> Please re-read my statement.  My statement does not contradict what you
> cited from C++ Primer.
>
> What is being elided is the assignment operator, not the copy constructor. 
> The copy constructor is still being used for initialization.

Glad to hear that you agree with C++ primer ;-). However, as I found out, the 
default behavior of gcc 3.3.4 is not to call the copy constructor in:
Foo f = 2;
instead it uses direct initialization. I've written a simple test program that 
shows this quite clearly. 

So here the default behavior of gcc contradicts with what I've read in C++ 
primer.

The assigment operator is never called in the statement above, with or without 
-fno-elide-constructors.

See the attached code for an example.

best,
Jeroen
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