init = build_x_compound_expr_from_list (init, ELK_INIT,
tf_warning_or_error);
- if (TREE_CODE (TREE_TYPE (type)) != ARRAY_TYPE
+ tree ttype = TREE_TYPE (type);
+ if (TREE_CODE (ttype) != ARRAY_TYPE
&& TREE_CODE (TREE_TYPE (init)) == ARRAY_TYPE)
/* Note: default conversion is only called in very special cases. */
init = decay_conversion (init, tf_warning_or_error);
+ /* check_initializer handles this for non-reference variables, but for
+ references we need to do it here or the initializer will get the
+ incomplete array type and confuse later calls to
+ cp_complete_array_type. */
+ if (TREE_CODE (ttype) == ARRAY_TYPE
+ && TYPE_DOMAIN (ttype) == NULL_TREE
+ && (BRACE_ENCLOSED_INITIALIZER_P (init)
+ || TREE_CODE (init) == STRING_CST))
+ {
+ cp_complete_array_type (&ttype, init, false);
+ if (ttype != TREE_TYPE (type))
+ type = cp_build_reference_type (ttype, TYPE_REF_IS_RVALUE (type));
+ }
+
/* Convert INIT to the reference type TYPE. This may involve the
creation of a temporary, whose lifetime must be the same as that
of the reference. If so, a DECL_EXPR for the temporary will be