http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48930
Johannes Schaub <schaub.johannes at googlemail dot com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |schaub.johannes at | |googlemail dot com --- Comment #1 from Johannes Schaub <schaub.johannes at googlemail dot com> 2011-05-08 21:22:20 UTC --- I think it can be argued that this is a bug in the Standard rather than in GCC. The Standard says that members of C are zero initialized. It says that the default constructor is called only if it is non-trivial. Since there is no default constructor here, there is nothing to be non-trivial. For sure this is arguing about things that are not intended this way, but I think non-the-less it can be argued this way. This "special" behavior is more clear in the following case struct C { C() = delete; }; C c{}; There is a default constructor, but it is not called because it's trivial.