Re: "A quick poll about order of =?UTF-8?B?ZXZhbHVhdGlvbuKApiI=?=
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:02:34 -0600
Christopher Pisz <nospam@notanaddress.com> wrote:
On 12/1/2014 5:53 PM, Christopher Pisz wrote:
On 12/1/2014 5:51 PM, Christopher Pisz wrote:
On 12/1/2014 2:54 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"A quick poll about order of evaluation=E2=80=A6"
http://herbsutter.com/2014/12/01/a-quick-poll-about-order-of-evaluati=
on/
"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=E2=80=99s C++ rul=
es.
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?
Derp, I mean 10. 5'o clock dyslexia.
Oh, I see, you are getting at the postfix occurring after the
statement rather than after the lhs or rhs of the statement is
evaluated. Didn't know that was undefined and made it 20 years
without running into that. I suppose that's a product of not using
postfix in favor of code that looks like it does what it actually
does.
It would be equally undefined if you used prefix notation. In either
case you would be modifying the same variable twice without one
modification being sequenced before the other (in C++11/14 speak) or
without an intervening sequence point (in C++98/03 speak).
Chris
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