Why won't gcc compile a class declaration as a reference argument?

Question

This compiles fine in Visual studio, but why not in XCode?

class A()
{};

someMethod(A& a);

someMethod(A()); //error: no matching function call in XCode only :(  

Is this bad form? it seems annoying to have to write the following every time:

A a;
someMethod(a);  //successful compile on Xcode

Am i missing something? I am not very experienced so thank you for any help!

Answer 1

You cannot bind a temporary to a non-const reference. It would work if you changed the function to take a const reference:

someMethod(const A& a);

In addition,

A a();

does not declare a local variable. It declares a function named a that takes no parameters and returns an object of type A. You mean:

A a;

Answer 2

For passing references to rvalues (of which the reference is implicitly obtained) like it's done in someMethod(A()), you need constant references. The valid declaration (including correct syntax) therefore is

void someMethod(const A& a);