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Bug 495905

Summary: [change method signature] reordering parameters changes the order of evaluating argument expressions
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Jongwook Kim <jongwook.kim>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: jongwook.kim
Version: 4.5.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Jongwook Kim CLA 2016-06-10 14:13:59 EDT
When the parameters of method m is reordered from B, C, D to C, D, B, the corresponding argument expressions in m invocation change their evaluation order from new B(), new C(), new D() to new C(), new D(), new B(). When the argument expressions have side effects, the program behavior may change.


BEFORE
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class A {
	void m(B b, C c, D d) {
	}

	void n() {
		new A().m(new B(), new C(), new D());
	}
}


AFTER
----------------------------------------------------
class A {
	void m(C c, D d, B b) {}	

	void n() {
		new A().m(new C(), new D(), new B());  // reordering
	}
}
Comment 1 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-01-27 01:43:18 EST
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

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