[Bug c++/19199] [3.3/3.4/4.0/4.1 Regression] Wrong warning about returning a reference to a temporary

[Mark Mitchell]

Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Monday 07 March 2005 19:49, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
>>The way I think about this is that G++ has long supported the GNU
>>min/max expression extension -- and it's long been broken.  Over the
>>years, I've fielded several bug reports about that extension, and we've
>>gradually cleaned it up, but mostly it's just been neglected.
> 
> So, maybe the extension is not used very much.  Perhaps it should be
> removed?

I don't think it's used very much.  It doesn't buy you much brevity, and 
in C++, you would generally use std::max/std::min anyhow.

I'd be happy to see it (deprecated and then) removed, but I think we'd 
need buy-in from the C front end maintainers.  As extensions go, it's 
actually not that bad; the semantics are relatively well defined.

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