12.7. Common Misunderstandings with GNU C++

12.7 Common Misunderstandings with GNU C++

C++ is a complex language and an evolving one, and its standard definition (the ISO C++ standard) was only recently completed. As a result, your C++ compiler may occasionally surprise you, even when its behavior is correct. This section discusses some areas that frequently give rise to questions of this sort.

• Static Definitions: Static member declarations are not definitions
• Name lookup: Name lookup, templates, and accessing members of base classes
• Temporaries: Temporaries may vanish before you expect
• Copy Assignment: Copy Assignment operators copy virtual bases twice