The following reply was made to PR c++/10245; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: bangerth@dealii.org
Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
	harri.pasanen@trema.com, jean-paul_marinier@hp.com,
	nobody@gcc.gnu.org, tot@trema.com, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/10245: [3.3/3.4 regression] ?: operator requires public
 copy constructor of return type
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:43:49 +0100

 bangerth@dealii.org writes:
 
 |>     Apparently it wants to make a copy of the return arguments.
 |>     Since at least in Standard C++ (not in Gnu C++) ?: returns
 |>     an rvalue, I don't think this is necessary.
 
 ?: returns an lvalue if both expressions have the same type.
 
 Andreas.
 
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