What could be as simple as incrementing a variable by one? Ignoring overflow, what else could possibly go wrong? As it turns out, quite a lot as this little quiz demonstrates.
Question: What is the value of a and i after this code runs?
int i = 0;
char a[2] = { 0 };
a[i++] = ++i;
Answer: The behaviour of the code in undefined.
Why?
A variable cannot be modified more than once in any expression unless the modification is punctuated with a sequence point. A sequence point (of which there are 6 in standard C++) guarantees that all the side effects of the previous expression are complete and no side effects from sub-sequence expression have been performed. Since i is modified and read twice in this expression the result is undefined.
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