C++ Irritation

In C++ (compiled with g++), the following will use foo's copy constructor:

foo f;
foo g = f;

Whereas I had really imagined it would use the default constructor, followed by the operator= function if present.

In other news, I am working on interesting stuff but haven't spoken about it yet. See CIL, the C Intermediate Language for a really interesting approach to compiler IR: It uses (a subset of) C as an intermediate language for C.