Lifetime of temporaries

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A temporary object is destroyed when the full-expression that lexically contains the rvalue whose evaluation created that temporary object is completely evaluated. Let me demonstrate with ASCII art:

____________________   full-expression ranges from 'b' to last ')'
bar( foo().c_str() );
     ^^^^^          ^
       |            |
     birth       funeral

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