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If some function f with parameters p_1, ..., p_n of types T_1, ..., T_n respectively is called with arguments a_1, ..., a_n and its body throws an exception, finishes or returns, in what order are the arguments destroyed and why? Please provide a reference to the standard, if possible.

EDIT: I actually wanted to ask about function "parameters", but as T.C. and Columbo managed to clear my confusion, I'm leaving this question be about the arguments and asked a new separate question about the parameters. See the comments on this question for the distinction.

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I did not manage to find the answer in the standard, but I was able to test this on 3 most popular C++ compliant compilers. The answer of R Sahu pretty much explains that it is implementation defined.

§5.2.2/8: The evaluations of the postfix expression and of the arguments are all unsequenced relative to one another. All side effects of argument evaluations are sequenced before the function is entered.

Visual Studio C++ Compiler (Windows) and gcc (Debian)
Arguments are constructed in order reverse to their declaration and destroyed in reversed order (thus destroyed in order of delcaration):

2
1
-1
-2

Clang (FreeBSD)
Arguments are constructed in order of their declaration and destroyed in reversed order:

1
2
-2
-1

All compilers were instructed to treat the source code as C++11 and I used the following snippet to demonstrate the situation:

struct A
{
    A(int) { std::cout << "1" << std::endl; }
    ~A() { std::cout << "-1" << std::endl; }
};

struct B
{
    B(double) { std::cout << "2" << std::endl; }
    ~B() { std::cout << "-2" << std::endl; }
};

void f(A, B) { }

int main()
{
    f(4, 5.);
}

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