What is the scope and evaluation of this if [duplicate] - c++

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When cleaning up some code that I have found online, I came across with this weird c++ line:
if (int i = 1) std::cout << i;
With LLVM it compiled fine and the console output is 1, but how does the scope is handled in here, shouldn't the i variable be only accessible inside the conditional (inside the parenthesis)? And how is that possible to be evaluated to true, isn't an assignment a void operation and with no value, so 0/false? What is going on with this line?

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This is the kind of a mock up code which generates the same bug.
Output:-
1 11
I am not changing value of arr anywhere in my program and still it shows 11 instead of 1 in the output.
if I comment out count[arr[i]+1]++; or count[i+1]+=count[i]; or both it gives the correct output.
1 1
What is happening please explain. (comment if I am doing something silly).
Edit: This is only happening with arr[0].
Compiling it with g++ -Wall -Wextra you get this warning:
rando_so.cpp: In function 'int main()':
rando_so.cpp:15:19: warning: iteration 7 invokes undefined behavior [-Waggressive-loop-optimizations]
count[i+1]+=count[i];
~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
rando_so.cpp:13:18: note: within this loop
for(int i=0;i<r+1;i++)
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