http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53196
--- Comment #6 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-05-02 21:17:01 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > That's simply because compound literals aren't valid in C++. > > So this page is wrong? > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html I didn't realise it was claimed to work in C++, but yes, I guess the docs are wrong. C++ provides several portable forms of initialization, there's really no need to support another non-standard one. These will all work for aggregate types (including "C structs") foo f{}; foo f = {}; foo f = foo{}; foo f = foo(); I'll propose a patch to fix the docs.
