Failure to call operator=() for return value temporary

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Atterer <atterer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

    Richard> /* Hello,

    Richard> I hope this is indeed a bug in GCC and not a subtle error
    Richard> in my code, but I've certainly spent a huge amount of
    Richard> time staring at my SmartPtr class without finding
    Richard> anything.

It is indeed a bug in your code.  A member template `operator=' can
never be a default assignment operator.  You need an explicit:

  SmartPtr& operator=(SmartPtr&);

declaration.

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