From: Ian Miller <itmiller AT dera DOT gov DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Incomprehensible Warning ...
Date: 05 Jun 1998 13:20:23 +0100
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gsm77 AT aol DOT com (GSM77) writes:

> Sorry, but i'm French ...

Don't apologise :)

> I got this warning : 
> 
> "initialization of non-const reference `struct X &' from rvalue 'X'
> in passing argument 2 of `operator >>(istream &, X &)'" 
> 
> The program is like this :
> =============================
>...
> 
> istream &
> operator >> ( istream & f, Y & b)
>   {
>     f >> static_cast <X> (b);  /* It's on this line... */
           ^^^^^^^^^^^
What is "static_cast"? Is it standard, because I don't know it?

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Ian Miller, Dorset, UK
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