-Wunused-variable triggers for temporaries with side effects when bound to a reference (original) (raw)
The following code warns on guard2 and guard3 (but not guard) despite all 3 variable having side effects on destruction.
This feels inconsistent and surprising.
GCC emits no warning in any of these cases.
struct RAIIWrapper { RAIIWrapper(); ~RAIIWrapper(); };
void foo() { auto const guard = RAIIWrapper(); auto const& guard2 = RAIIWrapper(); //unused variable 'guard2' auto && guard3 = RAIIWrapper(); //unused variable 'guard3' }