Re: Template instantiation context

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:43:21 +0200
Message-ID:
<h3tje4$qpl$1@news.eternal-september.org>
* Pavel:

Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

* Juha Nieminen:

  Assume we have these three files:

//--------------------------------------------------------------
// foo.hh
#include <iostream>

template<typename T>
void foo(T value)
{
    static int s = 0;
    ++s;
    std::cout << "value:" << value << ", s:" << s
              << ", externalVar:" << externalVar << std::endl;
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------

//--------------------------------------------------------------
// bar.cc
namespace { const int externalVar = 456; }
#include "foo.hh"

void bar()
{
    std::cout << "In bar(): ";
    foo(200);
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------

//--------------------------------------------------------------
// test.cc
namespace { const int externalVar = 123; }
#include "foo.hh"

void bar();

int main()
{
    std::cout << "In main(): ";
    foo(100);
    bar();
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------

  Now we compile test.cc and bar.cc into an executable program. What
should be the output of this program?


It's UB.

Btw., please don't formulate real questions so that they sound like
homework.

If this question had any other answer than UB I would have believed it
to be homework.

Why? It could be an interview questions but then OP would not be able to
use Internet. I can't see how it could be HW. It looks like a fully
compliant question to me.


The "What should be the output of this program?" triggered my HW recognition
meter. It is the form of the question, a code example followed by "what does
this do?", which is characteristic of homework and almost never what the author
of the code in question would ask. I ignored the HW meter needle's movement
because if it was homework then there would be a definite answer, not UB. :-)

Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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