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2024-10-26

1345. Initialization of anonymous union class members

[Voted into the WP at the February, 2012 meeting; moved to DR at the October, 2012 meeting.]

11.9.3 [class.base.init] paragraph 8 appears to indicate that a class member that is an anonymous union is to be default initilized.

Proposed resolution (August, 2011):

Change the indicated bullet of 11.9.3 [class.base.init] paragraph 8 as follows:

• otherwise, if the entity is an anonymous union or a variant member (11.5 [class.union]), no initialization is performed;