One of my favourites too. Here's a good StackOverflow answer on the topic. [0] Looking here [1] though, did something change in C++17 to ameliorate things? edit

One of my favourites too. Here's a good StackOverflow answer on the topic. [0] Looking here [1] though, did something change in C++17 to ameliorate things? edit Turns out yes, see dvt's comment. Second edit Apparently [2] I knew this 3 years ago and forgot. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/7693775/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/7693775/ [1] The final bullet-point in the Notes section of https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/shared_ptr/make_shared https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/shared_ptr/make_sha... [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38501587/what-are-the-evaluation-order-guarantees-introduced-by-c17#comment89394778_46472497 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38501587/what-are-the-ev...