Who cares what the answer is or should be or whatever - the lesson you should be learning from this question is just don't do this sort of thing. [edit]To expand on that - whenever some part of a language specification is defined as "implementation specific" or (as I think the C++ Standard says for cases like yours) "undefined", especially when it's language semantics like this, be afraid, be very afraid, and leave it well alone, as far as you are able.[/edit] Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p modified on Monday, June 8, 2009 8:30 AM

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