Ctor Initializer: self initialization causes crash?

Question

I had a hard time debugging a crash on production. Just wanted to confirm with folks here about the semantics. We have a class like ...

class Test {
public:
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Answer 1

m_str is constructed in the initialization list. Therefore, at the time you are assigning it to itself, it is not fully constructed. Hence, undefined behavior.

(What is that self-assignment supposed to do anyway?)