On 12 August 2014 04:37, navin p wrote: > Hi, > Is there any way to skip RVO using code. I know that g++ has a > -fno-elide-constructors . But i have to change the library for lot of > platforms and different compilers like gcc,clang,xlC,SunStudio,aCC > etc. I read that compiler is free to do the RVO as said by the > standard. But is there a way to prevent it for all compilers like > specifying some snippet? No. If your code relies on elision not happening then your code is broken.