This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21 Core Issues List revision 115f. See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official list.
2024-12-06
[Voted into the WP at the March, 2011 meeting.]
The note in 6.9.3.2 [basic.start.static] paragraph 3 contains the following example:
inline double fd() { return 1.0; } extern double d1; double d2 = d1; // unspecified: // may be statically initialized to 0.0 or // dynamically initialized to 1.0 double d1 = fd(); // may be initialized statically to 1.0
The comment for d2 overlooks the third possibility: if both d1 and d2 are dynamically initialized, d2 will be initialized to 0.
Proposed resolution (November, 2010):
Change the comments in the example in 6.9.3.2 [basic.start.static] paragraph 3 as follows:
inline double fd() { return 1.0; } extern double d1; double d2 = d1; // unspecified: // may be statically initialized to 0.0 or // dynamically initializedto1.0to 0.0 if d1 is dynamically initialized, or 1.0 otherwise double d1 = fd(); // may be initialized statically or dynamically to 1.0
(The note should also be in running text following the bulleted list instead of appearing as a bulleted item, as well.)