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2024-10-26
According to 9.4 [dcl.init] paragraph 5,
To zero-initialize an object of type T means:
...
if T is a reference type, no initialization is performed.
However, a reference is not an object, so this makes no sense.
Proposed resolution (March, 2010):
This issue is resolved by the resolution of issue 633 in document N2993.