https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69356
Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
Last reconfirmed| |2016-10-07
Summary|Wrong description of |compound literals for
|compound literals for |scalar types are still
|scalar types |lvalues unlike casts
Ever confirmed|0 |1
--- Comment #3 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Christian Brauner from comment #0)
> In section 6.26 Compound Literals of the gcc manual it is stated that
>
> "Compound literals for scalar types and union types are also allowed, but
> then the compound literal is equivalent to a cast."
>
> Which is either wrong or at least misleading. A cast does not yield an
> lvalue
It did in older versions of GCC as an extension (maybe undocumented). So I
suspect when that extension was removed; this wording was not changed.
