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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ coding standards (Comment needed)
Message-ID: <56968@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 90 20:50:05 GMT
References: <883@zinn.MV.COM>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <883@zinn.MV.COM> mjv@objects.mv.com (Michael J. Vilot) writes:
|The Timer object `t' is only active in the inner block.  Of course, the
|object is apparently never used, so I may get into trouble with those
|building aggressively-optimizing compilers.
|
|I hope such optimizations allow this use of constructor/destructor
|side-effects.

Yes, such usages of objects for the side effects of their constructors
and destructors is explicetly allowed in the language, and will not
be removed by compiler optimizations.  Other common examples are objects
that act as locks, and objects that print out debugging info as a side
effect of construction or destruction.