Re: C++ question related to casting

tis 2006-05-23 klockan 13:22 -0400 skrev Nick Lewycky:

> It's a temporary. pe->getReply()->head will get casted into the
> HttpHeader, used to call putStr(...), then its life is over, at which
> point the C++ implementation is free to destroy it at its leisure (some
> impl's do it after the end of the statement, some wait until the end of
> the function).
>
> Even if you'd said "HttpHeader HH = ...", it would still create a
> temporary, copy-construct the new HttpHeader, and then destroy the
> temporary.

So why did the original get smashed when the temporary was destructed? A
missing copy constructor?

REgards
Henrik