Named Return Value Extension Proposal

[E. Robert Tisdale]

Mike Stump wrote:

> Sounds great, but I missed the proof where you showed
> the compiler can't figure this out for itself.  :-(
> I instead favor having the compile do the hard work,
> and not require having the user try and code
> in something besides ANSI C++ in this case.

It can!
But the compiler must have already read the return statement
before it emits the code to construct x
which is something that the egcs compiler does not do.

E. Robert Tisdale <edwin@netwood.net>