Here is the little code snippet:

class A
{
public:
    A(int value) : value_(value)
    {
        cout <<"Regular constructor" <<endl;
    }

    A(const A& other)   : value_(other.value_)  
    {
        cout <<"Copy constructor" <<endl;
    }

private:
    int value_;
};
int main()
{
    A a = A(5);
}

I assumed that output would be "Regular Constructor" (for RHS) followed by "Copy constructor" for LHS. So I avoided this style and always declared variable of class as A a(5);. But to my surprise in the code above copy constructor is never called (Visual C++ 2008)

Does anybody know if this behavior is a result of compiler optimization, or some documented (and portable) feature of C++? Thanks.

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