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2024-12-19
[Moved to DR at the April, 2013 meeting.]
According to 6.9.3.2 [basic.start.static] paragraph 2,
Constant initialization is performed:
...
if an object with static or thread storage duration is not initialized by a constructor call and if every full-expression that appears in its initializer is a constant expression.
Presumably this would include a value-initialization (i.e., with no expressions) such as
int a[1000]{};
However, we have recently clarified the degenerate cases of other similar rules referencing “every,” so it wouldn't hurt to be more explicit here.
Proposed resolution (October, 2012):
Change 6.9.3.2 [basic.start.static] paragraph 2 as follows:
Constant initialization is performed:
...
if an object with static or thread storage duration is not initialized by a constructor call and if either the object is value-initialized or every full-expression that appears in its initializer is a constant expression.