commit 9686efb0957204545ff407b1e4a477da5fc16c4e
Author: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon Apr 11 12:15:27 2011 -0400

    	PR c++/48535
    	* semantics.c (finish_compound_literal): Handle references.

diff --git a/gcc/cp/semantics.c b/gcc/cp/semantics.c
index e08ddb3..461aa0a 100644
--- a/gcc/cp/semantics.c
+++ b/gcc/cp/semantics.c
@@ -2315,6 +2315,14 @@ finish_compound_literal (tree type, tree compound_literal,
   if (type == error_mark_node)
     return error_mark_node;
 
+  if (TREE_CODE (type) == REFERENCE_TYPE)
+    {
+      compound_literal
+	= finish_compound_literal (TREE_TYPE (type), compound_literal,
+				   complain);
+      return cp_build_c_cast (type, compound_literal, complain);
+    }
+
   if (!TYPE_OBJ_P (type))
     {
       if (complain & tf_error)