Re: uninitialized member warnings ?

On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 14:26 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> >     Neato :-) the deeper question - as to why no warnings are popping out
> > of the compiler for this when (surely) it's a trivial thing to check /
> > warn for - is more concerning.
>
> Such a warning option has never been there AFAIK.

        Oh - must be me mis-remembering it, or remembering valgrind output that
catches that, silly me.

> There is no way for the compiler to decide this in general (unlike Java, 
> C++ does not have restricting rules to allow the compiler to do so).

        no way ? surely there is - add a warning for un-initialized POD members
on the exit of the constructor. It seems that fools seldom differ, and
there is such a patch here:

        http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2972
        
        Doesn't seem to be going anywhere in the last month, but - you can but
hope :-)

        ATB,

                Michael.

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