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A glvalue (a “generalized lvalue”) expression is any expression which has identity, regardless of whether it can be moved from or not. This category includes lvalues (expressions that have identity but can’t be moved from) and xvalues (expressions that have identity, and can be moved from), but excludes prvalues (expressions without identity).

If an expression has a name, it’s a glvalue:

struct X { int n; };
X foo();

X x;
x; // has a name, so it's a glvalue
std::move(x); // has a name (we're moving from "x"), so it's a glvalue
              // can be moved from, so it's an xvalue not an lvalue

foo(); // has no name, so is a prvalue, not a glvalue
X{};   // temporary has no name, so is a prvalue, not a glvalue
X{}.n; // HAS a name, so is a glvalue. can be moved from, so it's an xvalue

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Value categories:
* rvalue
* xvalue
* lvalue
* glvalue

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8 Arrays
11 Loops
39 Streams
51 Unions
56 Lambdas
58 Value categories
60 SFINAE
62 RAII
67 Sorting
84 RTTI
87 Scopes
104 Profiling
107 Recursion
117 Iteration
125 Alignment
134 Semaphore
136 Debugging
139 Mutexes
142 decltype