I've just started porting my C++ application to Linux with Winelib.

Upon first attempts to compile, I've received a wall of "warning: returning reference to temporary" on Wine's headers from g++.

All of those seem to stem from guidgen.h definition of  __wine_uuidof / __CRT_UUID_DECL for C++.

All in all, g++ seems to be right -- we are indeed returning a reference to a IID struct that's allocated on the stack.

If I remove the '&' in this definition (in guidgen.h):

   template<typename T> const GUID &__wine_uuidof();
the warnings stop, but then I wonder, did the original author have some good reasoning for returning a reference in the first place?

Thanks.