http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49372
--- Comment #5 from Johannes Schaub <schaub.johannes at googlemail dot com> 2012-12-10 16:42:59 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > Kai, I don't think anyone disputes that B's constructor is called, the > > question > > is why 12.2/4 doesn't apply. > > Well, we have here 5.2.2 which says "A function call is a postfix expression > followed by parentheses containing a possibly empty, comma-separated list of > expressions which constitute the arguments to the function." > > But we don't have here an explicit function-call. And an implicit call is not > an expression, hence, not a part of any full expression, and so we don't have > a > sequence-point. Not sure if specification intended it differently, but by its > current wording I would assume that current implementation is right. > See 1.9p10. The implicit function call is considered to be an expression.
