roblin@jlab.org wrote:

Hi all, I was trying to understand the use of boost::ref and boost::cref and wrote this little snippet:

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boost::reference_wrapper<string const> ref=boost::cref(string("yoh"));

The string( "yoh" ) temporary is destroyed at the ; and you reference_wrapper ends up dangling. A real reference string const & ref = string("yoh"); is special-cased by the language to prevent the destruction of the temporary string, but reference_wrapper cannot do so. You need to initialize it with a real object, not a temporary. string yoh( "yoh" ); boost::reference_wrapper<string const> ref = boost::cref( yoh );