FIX: Failure To Call Destructor of Explicitly Constructed Anonymous Temporary

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This article was previously published under Q216731

SYMPTOMS

When an explicitly constructed anonymous temporary of template type that has a default constructor with a default argument is used in an expression, it is never destroyed.

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194022/EN-US/ ) INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194295/EN-US/ ) HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

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Sample Code

#include <stdio.h>
const int ex = 4;

template<typename T>
struct CPtr {
    CPtr(int e = ex) {
		m_ptr = new T();
		printf("In CPtr::CPtr()\n");
	}

    T *operator->() const {
		return m_ptr;
	}

	~CPtr() {
		printf("In CPtr::~CPtr()\n");
	}

	T *m_ptr;
};

struct I {
	int mf() {return 1;}
};

int main()
{
	bool fFlag = false;
	if ((CPtr<I>()->mf() < 0) && !fFlag) return 1;
	return 0;
}

The output is: