From: Warren Young
Date: July 22 2005 12:29am
Subject: Re: Beta 2: Warning when compiling program in FC4 GCC4
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Chris Frey wrote:
> 
> The latest SVN version has this "fixed", but incorrectly in my
> opinion.  It currently just returns *this, whereas I don't think
> operator=() should be defined at all, just declared.

Does this actually suppress the compiler-generated version?

Regardless, operator= does normally return *this, so the only problem 
with doing it this way is that it generates a tiny bit more code than if 
it were only declared and not defined.