Re: "A quick poll about order of =?windows-1252?Q?evaluation=85=22?=
On 12/1/2014 3:51 PM, Christopher Pisz wrote:
On 12/1/2014 2:54 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"A quick poll about order of evaluation?"
http://herbsutter.com/2014/12/01/a-quick-poll-about-order-of-evaluation/
"Consider this program fragment:"
" std::vector<int> v = { 0, 0 };
int i = 0;
v[i++] = i++;
std::cout << v[0] << v[1] << endl; "
"My question is not what it might print under today?s C++ rules. The
third line runs afoul of two different categories of undefined and
unspecified behavior."
"Rather, my question is what you would like the result to be. Please let
me know."
My answer is 02.
Lynn
Does not compile.
If it did, I am not sure what the problem would be.
I expect the output to be 01 and when I rewrote your snippet to a fully
compilable program it indeed was 01.
// Standard Includes
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
int main()
{
std::vector<int> v;
v.push_back(0);
v.push_back(0);
int i = 0;
v[i++] = i++;
std::cout << v[0] << v[1] << std::endl;
return 0;
}
Is there some undefined behavior here that I am not aware of?
Yes. First of all, i is accessed and modified twice between a sequence
points
*** v[i++] = i++;
I'm not sure what the second category of UB that Herb refers to is.
I thought at first it might be that v[2] was being referenced, but
it's using postincrement.
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