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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
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- Subject: Re: double& rd2 = 2.0; // error?
- Date: 01 Mar 1996 09:02:33 PST
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- David Bowser-Chao <davechao@cteq07.pa.msu.edu> writes:
-
- >Looking at the April 1995 working draft proposal,
- >the fragment:
- >
- > double& rd2 = 2.0;
- >
- >is deemed illegal (non-const references are not initialized from
- >temporaries)
-
- The draft standard does not use the term "illegal".
- It uses the term "ill-formed".
-
- >but the GNU g++ 2.7.2 as well as the DEC VMS compiler
- >(current release, don't remember, as well as the version I'm
- >field-testing) allow this statement with a mere warning.
-
- According to the draft standard, compilers are not required
- to issue errors for ill-formed code; they are allowed to issue
- mere warnings.
-
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