• "Jon Allen" <jallen minotstateu.edu> Mar 27 2003
• "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> May 16 2003

"Jon Allen" <jallen minotstateu.edu> writes:

I think I found a compiler bug.  The commented line doesn't work, but the
following two do.  This doesn't seem right.  Am I missing something here?

class foo
{}

void main()
{
    foo* bar;
    foo blah;
    //bar=&(new foo);
    blah=new foo;
    bar=&blah;

}

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Jon Allen" <jallen minotstateu.edu> wrote in message
news:b60ke6$31gj$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I think I found a compiler bug.  The commented line doesn't work, but the
 following two do.  This doesn't seem right.  Am I missing something here?

 class foo
 {}

 void main()
 {
     foo* bar;
     foo blah;
     //bar=&(new foo);
     blah=new foo;
     bar=&blah;

 }


Think of it as analogous to:
    bar = &(x + y);
as opposed to:
    blah = (x + y);
    bar = &blah;