Problematic declaration syntax

Posted by: rmn on: 20/08/2009

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This question was written by a friend who luckily let me use it. It presents a very common pitfall of C++, regarding the syntax of decleration statements.

In the following code, what would be the type of b?

struct A {
    A (int i) {}
};

struct B {
    B (A a) {}
};

int main () {
    int i = 1;
    B b(A(i));
    return 0;
}

Hint: you will be surprised! Try printing inside B’s constructor.