"KarL" <someone@somewhere.org> wrote in message news:aiq9u1$m0r$1@digitaldaemon.com...

Source:

#include <iostream.h>

class foo {
public:
  static bar() { cout << "bar ";}
  foo() {cout << "ctor ";}
  ~foo() {cout << "dtor\n";}
};

void main()
{
  foo().bar();
}

Output

bar dtor

Destructor was called without calling the constructor. This was reported in

Windows Development Journal with comments by Ron Burk years ago and

now I think only DMC++ still has this bug.

 

GNU saying "bar" - perhaps the optimisation is too wonderful to be true...

 

VC++ and BCC32 says "ctor bar dtor" which object was created and destroyed.