Turning warning "returning reference to temporary" into error?

Richard Guenther rguenth@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Sun May 11 18:59:00 GMT 2003


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.



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