How Not to Program in C++

126 Chapter 7

Program 83: Wild Output

A student of C++ wanted to see how constructors and destructors were called, so

he wrote the following program. Yet he learned more than he bargained for.

What’s the problem?

1 /************************************************

2 * Class tester. Test constructor / destructor*

3 * calling. *

4 ************************************************/

5 #include <iostream>

6

7 /************************************************

8 * tester -- Class that tells the world when *

9 * it's created and destroyed. *

10 ************************************************/

11 class tester {

12 public:

13 tester(void) {

14 std::cout <<

15 "tester::t ...