Debugger doesn't hit breakpoint - c++

Question

simple code, in main (bottom of this post) there is literally one line of code, yet VS2008 marks this line as unreachable!!!
Could someone please take a look and tell me what's going on with it.
One note, if I delete the line marked as //DELETED TO WORK in class Reader, this code miraculously works. Tried many things, pointing debugger to source code etc, etc. None of the above works.
Help needed.
Thank you.
//AClass.hpp
class AClass
{
int x ;
public:
AClass(void);
~AClass(void);
};
//AClass.cpp
#include "AClass.hpp"
AClass::AClass(void)
{
int a = 1;
if (a++)
{
a = a + 1;
}
else
{
a = a -1;
}
}
AClass::~AClass(void)
{
}
//Reader.hpp
#include <string>
#include "AClass.hpp"
class Reader
{
private:
std::string str_;
//Tokenizer tokenizer_;
AClass ac_;//DELETED TO WORK
public:
Reader(void);
~Reader(void);
std::string read();
};
//Reader.cpp
#include "Reader.h"
#include <iostream>
Reader::Reader(void)
{
}
Reader::~Reader(void)
{
}
std::string Reader::read()
{
std::getline(std::cin,str_);//read input
return str_;//result of calculations is in str_
}
//main.cpp
#include "Reader.h"
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
Reader reader;
try
{
reader.read();//BREAKPOINT SET ON THIS LINE IS MARKED BY VS AS UNREACHABLE!!!!!!
}
catch(...)
{
std::cerr << "Something is wrong";
}
return 0;
}