Using the online MSVC compiler at http://webcompiler.cloudapp.net/ (which runs Visual C++ 19.00.23720.0), it failed with these error message:
Compiled with /EHsc /nologo /W4 /c
main.cpp
main.cpp(20): error C4576: a parenthesized type followed by an
initializer list is a non-standard explicit type conversion syntax
main.cpp(21): error C4576: a parenthesized type followed by an initializer
list is a non-standard explicit type conversion syntax
main.cpp(22): error C4576: a parenthesized type followed by an initializer list
is a non-standard explicit type conversion syntax
main.cpp(23): error C4576: a parenthesized type followed by an initializer list
is a non-standard explicit type conversion syntax
If for some absurd reason you really do need to emulate a "compound statement expression" in MSVC (because you need to declare some temp variables in a macro that can be used for assignment), it turns out that it can be done with a "lambda expression":
#include <stdio.h>
int bar(int n, const char *p[])
{
int total = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
total += printf("%s\t", p[i]);
}
putchar('\n');
return total;
}
#define bar(...) [](){ \
const char *_args[] = {NULL, __VA_ARGS__}; \
return bar(sizeof(_args)/sizeof(*_args) - 1, _args + 1); \
}()
int main(/* int argc, char **argv */) {
int total = 0;
total += bar();
total += bar("a");
total += bar("a", "b");
total += bar("a", "b", "c");
printf("total: %d\n", total);
return 0;
}
Compound literals were never formally added to C++.
Still, that hasn't stopped various front-ends (including GCC and Clang) from adding them to their C++ dialects. My code compiles with Clang, but not GCC. GCC complains that it's not OK to take the address of the array compound literal.
FWIW, C99 makes it clear that the object has automatic storage duration lasting until the end of the enclosing block. i.e. There shouldn't be an issue with dangling pointers.
