On Oct 3, 2010, at 2:21 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
> If a function returns a temporary, you probably don't want to hold onto it
> with a "const Foo& foo". The temporary will get deallocated
> and then you'll be left with a reference to dead memory, which is bad new
> bears:
I don’t understand why the crashes were happening here and why your code
changes were helpful.
What you say here about object lifetime is not correct. I thought the same
thing a year or so back. But the C++ language keeps these objects alive until
the end of the block. Some other programmers on the project challenged me when
I made this assertion, and we found that I was wrong and they were right.
But that doesn’t explain why the code was crashing!
-- Darin
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