[Dev-C++] classes and references

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Hi!

Please, C++ gurus out there - help me, I think I'm gonna get crazy soon.

Finally I have decided to learn C++. 400 pages so far from Bjarne's 
book. I can tell - it is a whole bunch of crap. I'm sure Bjarne can 
desing C++ programs very well, but he cannot design a book, that's sure. 
You just cannot find the thing that you need at the right place, it is 
spread across 1600 pages. Find it - well thanks a lot :)

So, to the point. I have a question about a thing, that works with 
Borland, and MSVC, but not with g++. Here it is:

I have a class, name it "myclass".
I have a function, which return "myclass".
I have a function, which uses "myclass".
Here they are:

//The class
class myclass{
   public:
     static void use_myclass(myclass& mc){ //The using function
       printf("Value: %d\n",mc.value);
     }
     int value;
};

//The returner function
myclass make_myclass(void)
{
   myclass mc_tmp;
   return mc_tmp;
}

And so why the hell doesn't this work?:

int main()
{
   myclass::use_myclass(make_myclass());
   return 0;
}

WHILE THIS DOES:

int main()
{
   myclass mc_tmp = make_myclass();
   myclass::use_myclass(mc_tmp);
   return 0;
}

The ONLY difference is, that I put the result in a temporary variable, 
then I used that.
The compiler gave this warning to the first one:

test.cpp:19: no matching function for call to 
`myclass::use_myclass(myclass)'
test.cpp:5: candidates are: static void myclass::use_myclass(myclass&)

So why the hell doesn't it make a reference from it then???

Please help me with this, I am at the bounds of getting crazy... really!

Thank you!

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Greetings,
   Balázs