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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (              Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: elementary question about c++
Message-ID: <6590034@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 88 23:53:54 GMT
References: <1297@tekirl.TEK.COM>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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/* Actually, this might be an interesting example.  The following
   program is about the same, except constructors and destructors
   make and destroy a value, and I'm using old i/o in order to
   make for easier decyphering of the resulting ..c intermediate
   file.

   The Million Dollar Question: what SHOULD the printf statement
   in main() print out ??? Explain your answer :-)
*/

#include <stdio.h>
class foo
{
public:
	long value;
        foo ()  { printf("cons\n"); value = 1000000;}
       ~foo ()  { printf("dest\n"); value = 0;}
};

foo bar() { foo a; return a; }
main ()   
{ 
    foo c = bar (); 
    printf("c.value = %d\n",c.value);
}