From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21877 invoked by alias); 8 May 2003 23:46:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 21842 invoked by uid 71); 8 May 2003 23:46:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 23:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20030508234601.21833.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: Wolfgang Bangerth Subject: Re: c++/1833 Reply-To: Wolfgang Bangerth X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00676.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR c++/1833; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Wolfgang Bangerth To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, Giovanni Bajo Cc: Subject: Re: c++/1833 Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 18:38:11 -0500 (CDT) This is a gcc extension: cast-as-lvalue. I personally think it's an evil one. Binding it to a reference yields all sorts of problems. I closed several duplicates of some such bug recently. Giovanni, check 1920 and 7884, possibly also 7503. W. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Bangerth email: bangerth@ices.utexas.edu www: http://www.ices.utexas.edu/~bangerth/