Re: Trap representations producing Undefined Behavior

From:
thamizh.veriyan@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
13 May 2007 04:29:24 -0700
Message-ID:
<1179055764.641747.255180@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
On May 12, 10:36 pm, kingfox <foxap...@gmail.com> wrote:

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h.veri...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I am new to this community. I have a doubt regarding trap
representations.

I read in IBM's website that something like this is legal:

int main(){
     int x=3;
     {
         int x=x;
     }

}


I don't know which compiler will make the latter x refer to outter
scope. I try three compiler (gcc, OpenWatcom, Borland C++ Builder),
they all treat the latter x as an uninitialized variable.

I was also told that something like this is well defined.

int main() {
struct X {X operator++(int) {return X();} } x;
x=x++;

}


x = x++ ==> x = X(); so, it's well defined.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


I tried it on Dev C++ which uses mingw and also tried it on GCC. It is
initializing the inner 'x' with the one in the outer scope. However
since you are getting different values I guess that snippet exhibits
undefined behavior too. However do you have anything from the standard
that explains this?

And it is funny that IBM has mentioned this snippet as an example for
explaining scope in XL C/C++ Documentation.

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