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Re: Turning warning "returning reference to temporary" into error?
- From: Richard Guenther <rguenth at tat dot physik dot uni-tuebingen dot de>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Cc: Richard Guenther <rguenth at tat dot physik dot uni-tuebingen dot de>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 20:59:13 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Turning warning "returning reference to temporary" into error?
On 11 May 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Richard Guenther <rguenth@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> | Wouldnt it be a good idea to at least turn the
> | maybe_warn_about_returning_address_of_local warnings into an error with
> | -pedantic? Or always?
>
> This is not always practical since the actual meaning (i.e. error or
> not) depends on the code path during runtime.
Hm - I cannot think of any "legal" use, other than ignoring the return
value, of course.
Richard.