Scope of temporaries as function arguments

[Ali Çehreli]

On 06/28/2013 10:53 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:

 > On Friday, 28 June 2013 at 17:30:58 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 >> 1) C++ does not specify whether the stack gets unwound when the
 >> program terminates with an uncaught exception. That's why I caught to
 >> ensure that the stack objects would be destroyed.
 >
 > Doesn't it? The stack needs to be unwound for the exception to even
 > "escape". It's merely the globals that may not be destroyed. (AFAIK)

The standard does not specify it. On Linux, abort() gets called causing 
a core dump, which may be more useful than executing the destructors.

Ali