Re: About adoption of implicit zero initialisation of POD types in

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On 16 Apr, 23:50, Pavel Minaev <int...@gmail.com> wrote:

  void show_value(std::shared_ptr<int const> ptr){std::cout << *ptr;}

  // note the assumption that code makes
  int main() {
     std::shared_ptr<int> i_ptr;
     foo(i_ptr);
  }

This is something that can be written in C++0x, or, for that matter,
in C++03 with TR1 today, with i_ptr being implicitly initialized to a
null pointer. For any arguments along the lines of "I do not want the
compiler to correct my code silently", they would also have to explain
why a smart pointer in this case should be treated any differently
from a raw pointer.


It would seem that the defect is not providing a mechanism to allow
the programmer to inform the compiler that a user-defined type is in
an uninitialized state. Adding automatic initialization would make the
defect apply to built in types too.

-Ed
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