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2024-10-26

1070. Missing initializer clauses in aggregate initialization

[Voted into the WP at the November, 2010 meeting.]

• Otherwise, if the initializer list has no elements and T is an aggregate, each of the members of T is initialized from an empty initializer list. [Example:...

A better way to handle this would be to delete that bullet and change 9.4.2 [dcl.init.aggr] paragraph 7 as follows:

If there are fewer initializer-clauses in the list than there are members in the aggregate, then each member not explicitly initialized shall be value-initialized (9.4 [dcl.init]) initialized from an empty initializer list (9.4.5 [dcl.init.list]).

This makes { } less of a special case and makes the following example work:

    struct A {
       A(std::initializer_list<int>);
    };
    struct B {
       int i;
       A a;
    };
    B b = { 1 };

Proposed resolution (August, 2010):

1. Delete 9.4.5 [dcl.init.list] bullet 3.2, includeing the example:

• Otherwise, if the initializer list has no elements and T is an aggregate, each of the members of T is initialized from an empty initializer list. [Example:...

2. Change 9.4.2 [dcl.init.aggr] paragraph 7 as follows:

If there are fewer initializer-clauses in the list than there are members in the aggregate, then each member not explicitly initialized shall be value-initialized (9.4 [dcl.init]) initialized from an empty initializer list (9.4.5 [dcl.init.list]).