C++ extension "cast-as-lvalues": time to deprecate?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 09-May-2003, Giovanni Bajo <giovannibajo@libero.it> wrote:
> Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> > Are you suggesting just deprecating it just in C++, or also in C?
> 
> I don't have any strong opinion.

According to the GCC manual, this extension is *already* deprecated in C++.

	"Standard C++ allows compound expressions and conditional
	expressions as lvalues, and permits casts to reference type,
	so use of this extension is deprecated for C++ code."

(This is from <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues>.)

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