Re: [boost] [complex] Feedback and Potential Review Manager

Subject: Re: [boost] [complex] Feedback and Potential Review Manager
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-07 21:29:10

AMDG

On 05/07/2012 01:35 PM, Christopher Kormanyos wrote:
> 
> I also believe that the value of, say, the default
> constructor of float is zero. In particular
> 
> void do_something()
> {
>   // F1 is initialized to zero.
>   float f1 = float();
>   ...
> }
> 

This is /not/ the default constructor.
f1 is copy constructed from an /value-initialized/
temporary.  For scalar types, value initialization
is the same as zero initialization.

> So ISO/IEC 14882:2011 ensures that all valid uses
> of complex are default initialized to zero. Without
> judgement, this is the spec.
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe