Does "Return value optimization" cause undefined behavior?

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Published on 2010-02-24T05:42:31Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 5:30 UTC
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Reading this Wikipedia article pointed by one of the repliers to the following question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2323225/c-copy-constructor-temporaries-and-copy-semantics

I came across this line

Depending on the compiler, and the compiler's settings, the resulting program may display any of the following outputs:

Doesn't this qualify for undefined behavior? I know the article says Depending on the compiler and settings but I just want to clear this.

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