[cfe-dev] Initialization of an anonymous struct within a class

[Shaun Jackman]

On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:48 -0700, Douglas Gregor wrote: 
> On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether an anonymous struct within a class is standard, or
> > a GCC extension that clang attempts to support. In any case, the
> > following code snippet gives this error:
> > 
> > anonymous-struct.cc:9:16: error: multiple initializations given for non-static member 'y'
> >        Foo() : x(0), y(0) { }
> >                      ^~~~
> > anonymous-struct.cc:9:10: note: previous initialization is here
> >        Foo() : x(0), y(0) { }
> >                ^
> > 2 diagnostics generated.
> > 
> > Just for comparison, I've also given code that does not use an anonymous
> > struct and does compile cleanly.
> 
> 
> It's definitely a Clang bug, and while I know I've seen this issue at least once before, it doesn't seem to be in our bug tracker. Could you file a bug on LLVM's Bugzilla?
> 
> 	- Doug

Hi Doug,

Is an anonymous struct like this one standard?

Bug 7855 - Initialization of an anonymous struct within a class
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7855

Cheers,
Shaun