Re: "A quick poll about order of =?windows-1252?Q?evaluation=85=22?=
On 2014-12-02 02:09, JiiPee wrote:
On 01/12/2014 20:54, 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
I agree with my GCC compiler: 10
Because it should go from left to right like we are reading it. So [i++]
first, then after that i++.
I am interested; why should it be something else than this? We read (and
the compiler as well) the code from top to bottom and from left to right
normally, isnt it?
Not really. :-)
The problem here is that the compiler isn't required to store the result
of the increment back into i until the end of the expression. If you
read (or write) i again before that, we don't know what will happen.
Bo Persson
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