Evaluation order of function arguments

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If a function has multiple arguments, it is unspecified what order they are evaluated in. The following code could print x = 1, y = 2 or x = 2, y = 1 but it is unspecified which.

int f(int x, int y) {
    printf("x = %d, y = %d\n", x, y);
}
int get_val() {
    static int x = 0;
    return ++x;
}
int main() {
    f(get_val(), get_val());
}

In C++17, the order of evaluation of function arguments remains unspecified.

However, each function argument is completely evaluated, and the calling object is guaranteed evaluated before any function arguments are.

struct from_int {
  from_int(int x) { std::cout << "from_int (" << x << ")\n"; }
};
int make_int(int x){ std::cout << "make_int (" << x << ")\n"; return x; }

void foo(from_int a, from_int b) {
}
void bar(from_int a, from_int b) {
}

auto which_func(bool b){
  std::cout << b?"foo":"bar" << "\n";
  return b?foo:bar;
}

int main(int argc, char const*const* argv) {
  which_func( true )( make_int(1), make_int(2) );
}

this must print:

bar
make_int(1)
from_int(1)
make_int(2)
from_int(2)

bar
make_int(2)
from_int(2)
make_int(1)
from_int(1)

it may not print bar after any of the make or from’s, and it may not print:

bar
make_int(2)
make_int(1)
from_int(2)
from_int(1)

or similar. Prior to C++17 printing bar after make_ints was legal, as was doing both make_ints prior to doing any from_ints.

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