Re: why Visual Studio can not optimize the initialization code?

From:
Abhishek Padmanabh <abhishek.padmanabh@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:46:43 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<31fcf7e7-1151-4f9b-b791-fea4e09543b0@a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Dec 19, 12:37 pm, George <Geo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Hello everyone,

Why Visual Studio compiler can not optimize in this case? I think this case
is almost the same as sample 1, why compiler can optimize sample 1 but can
not optimze sample 2?

(sample 2,http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms364057(vs.80).aspx)


What is not optimizing? Which portion in this sample were you
expecting to be optimized out but the compiler did not? (If you note
the sample correctly - there is an optimization!)

[Code]
#include <stdio.h>
class A {
  public:
    A() {printf ("A: I am in constructor\n");i = 1;}
    ~A() { printf ("A: I am in destructor\n"); i = 0;}
    A(const A& a) {printf ("A: I am in copy constructor\n"); i = a.i;}
    int i, x, w;};

 class B {
  public:
    A a;
    B() { printf ("B: I am in constructor\n");}
    ~B() { printf ("B: I am in destructor\n");}
    B(const B& b) { printf ("B: I am in copy constructor\n");}};

A MyMethod()
{
    B* b = new B();
    A a = b->a;
    delete b;
    return (a);}

int main()
{
    A a;
    a = MyMethod();}

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