Re: a warning to implement

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>]

Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@redhat.com> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com> writes:
| > I'm not sure I can represent on this public list, opinions expressed
| > on closed mailing-lists.  However, you might want to consult
| > c++std-core archive.  You'll discover people have use of
| > self-initialisation even if you cannot imagine such use.
| 
| But if gcc doesn't behave the way these people expect, that sounds
| like an even better reason to warn as part of -Wall.  

Then T is a user defined type,

   T x = x;

should be implemented correctly by GCC.

| If gcc
| implements the intended behaviour at some point in the future,
| we could stop -Wself-initialization or whatever from warning
| about those cases.

Now you'll have to argue why you're stopping something documented used
to work as documented.

-- Gaby