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> Actually, I don't understand what his issue is. There's nothing wrong
> with the code he posted (he's not passing temporaries).
>
Yes, he is. Since the types don't match, but are convertable, a temporary
converted value is generated.

> > Actually, I don't understand what his issue is. There's nothing wrong
> > with the code he posted (he's not passing temporaries).
> >
> Yes, he is. Since the types don't match, but are convertable, a temporary
> converted value is generated.

There's no type mismatch in his original post.

Ron Natalie wrote:

> Yes, he is. Since the types don't match, but are convertable, a temporary
> converted value is generated.

There seems to be something wrong anyway: BCC managed to make the type
conversion from long to unsigned long, but then complained about
temporaries being passed, while saying nothing about the automatic
conversion itself. GCC, on the other hand, refused to do the type
conversion and failed to compile.

I am not sure about what the proper behavior should be, but I would hope
that, in a situation like that, the compilers would *warn* both about
the type conversion (since there is a good chance of it being unwanted)
and the creation of temporaries. That way, a user could have a better
idea of where he went wrong.

Regards,

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Ney André de Mello Zunino

"Ney André de Mello Zunino" <> wrote in message news:boc76s$1coms3$...

> There seems to be something wrong anyway: BCC managed to make the type
> conversion from long to unsigned long, but then complained about
> temporaries being passed, while saying nothing about the automatic
> conversion itself. GCC, on the other hand, refused to do the type
> conversion and failed to compile.
>
Either way is fine. The standard doesn't say anything about the message
issued for ill-formed programs, just that one should be issued. Actually
both errors are fine. It's not clear to the compiler (or even me) which is
the real error here. It could either be that you didn't intend a conversion
here (mismatched args) or you are trying to bind the converted temporary
to an non-const reference.