https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56568
Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |INVALID --- Comment #2 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to fuzzyTew from comment #1) > Here's an example I ran into using a plain int: > http://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/a/1dfad4e209339aa1 That's undefined behaviour. You create a temporary array with one element, then return an initializer_list which is bound to that local array, which goes out of scope. Your example and the original testcase are equivalent to: const int& f() { long i = 0; return i; } which creates a temporary and binds a reference to it, resulting in a dangling reference. std::initializer_list is not a container, don't try to do clever things with it, you will get burnt.