C++ is a complex language and an evolving one, and its standard definition (the ISO C++ standard) was only recently completed. As a result, your C++ compiler may occasionally surprise you, even when its behavior is correct. This section discusses some areas that frequently give rise to questions of this sort.
Static Definitions: | Static member declarations are not definitions | |
Name lookup: | Name lookup, templates, and accessing members of base classes | |
Temporaries: | Temporaries may vanish before you expect | |
Copy Assignment: | Copy Assignment operators copy virtual bases twice |