function returning lvalue instead of rvalue

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Simpson, Kenneth S" <kenneth.s.simpson@intel.com> writes:

| Hi,
|   The following program demonstrates either a bug in gcc or a misconception
| of mine.
| 
|   I believe that case 1 should fail in exactly the same way as case 3,
| meaning that the string returned from the function is not an lvalue.

No, objects of class-type are specila in that you may invoke non
member functions on them.  

-- Gaby
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