On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:03:49AM +0100, Phil Prentice wrote: > I have a problem with the copy constructor. Point::Point(Point&) is not a copy constructor (or, rather, it is a restricted copy constructor); it only accepts arguments that are actual, changeable Point objects. > I have knocked up a simple > program that demonstrates this problem. I have compiled this same program > using Visual C++ (windows) and it compiles & runs as I would have expected. Then you should send a bug report to Microsoft. If the compiler accepts an attempt to bind a non-const reference to a temporary, this is a serious error in the compiler.
