**Note: The short code in this post reveals the bug, which fails to assign 
function return value to struct member when executing:
a.member = func(b,c);

**Note: I tried my best to simplify the source code. I think the source is 
short and obvious.

**Instructions to reveal the bug:
Please save the source file to test.cpp and execute the following command lines:
g++ test.cpp
./a.out

You will see on the screen:
8:-1
8:-1
3:-1

But actually it should be:
8:-1
8:2
3:-1

The reason is that the noted line in the source code:
  buf[r].son = construct(value, buf[r].son);
calls construct, but does not assign the value to buf[r].son.


//test.cpp source begins
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;

struct node{
  int value;
  int son;
  node() {value=0;son=-1;}
};

vector<node> buf;

int construct(int value, int tree) {
  int r = buf.size();
  buf.push_back(node());
  if(tree==-1) {
    buf[r].value = value;
    return r;
  }
  buf[r] = buf[tree];
  // ************* the following line is not executed correctly *******
  buf[r].son = construct(value, buf[r].son);
  return r;
}

int main(){
  construct(8,-1);
  construct(3,0);
  for(int i=0;i<buf.size();i++) {
    cout<<buf[i].value<<":"<<buf[i].son<<endl;
  }
  return 0;
}
//source ends