Are all temporaries rvalues in C++?

Question

I have been coding in C++ for past few years. But there is one question that I have not been able to figure out. I want to ask, are all temporaries in C++, rvalues?

Answer 1

It depends on what you consider a temporary variable is. You can write something like

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    char carray[10];
    char *c=carray+1;
    *(c+2+4) = 9;
    printf("%d\n",carray[7]);
    return 0;
}

This runs in VisualStudios and GCC. You can run the code in codepad

I consider (c+2+4) a rvalue although i want to assign to it. When i dereference it, it would become an lvalue. So yes all temporaries are rvalues. But you can make rvalues (thus a temporary) into an lvalue by dereferencing it