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Re: PR tree-opt/33616: ICE on callee-copied constructor arguments

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Richard Sandiford wrote:

> Sorry, my mistake.  I'd assumed that because C's COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPRs
> are lvalues -- as in:
> 
>     struct s { int i, j; };
>     void foo (void) { (struct s) { 1, 2 } = (struct s) { 3, 4 }; }
> 
> -- that CONSTRUCTORs would be too.

And specifically, COMPOUND_LITERAL_EXPR was created because CONSTRUCTORs 
are not lvalues and otherwise do not satisfy the semantics of compound 
literals.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-11/msg01301.html

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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