[boost] Re: Pretty Good Initialization Library

From: Miro Jurisic (macdev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-07 18:22:54

In article <40EC84D1.5060604_at_[hidden]>, Darren Cook <darren_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I'm not sure which of a/b/c I am, but if I saw the below code I would be 
> surprised if foo() was not evaluated before bar(). If it was a function:
>    f( foo(), bar() );
> would foo() always be executed before bar()?

No. This is a common misconception and a common source of bugs that only show up 
when optimizations are turned on. It's also a source of exception-unsafe code, 
as detailed in Exceptional C++ and a GOTW column.

meeroh

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