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Is this a bug in irange.hpp

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with lines 166–169 of irange.hpp and inspect the types of m_first, m_step, and m_step_size. Check the surrounding irange implementation and existing tests to determine whether dereference() can return a reference to a temporary. Done means confirming the behavior and documenting or correcting it with appropriate test coverage.

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Description

Lines 166 to 169 in irange.hpp:
166 reference dereference() const
167 {
168 return m_first + (m_step * m_step_size);
169 }
This looks like it is returning a reference to a temporary. Undefined behaviour?

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