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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (              Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: elementary question about c++
Message-ID: <6590038@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Apr 88 01:05:58 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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| It should print
| 
| 	c.value = 1000000
| 
| In the line marked with *****, c is initialized to be a copy of whatever
| bar() returns.

Okay, given that my local copy of the AT&T compiler (v1.2 ?) clearly
generates intermediate C code that performs the destructor operation
[setting c.value to zero] before the return of the function, thus
printing:

c.value = 0

is this a bug, or what ?

How WOULD one generate C code for this operation -- returning the
value of a structure, yet destroying the value of that structure
before the function returns ?