https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93916
--- Comment #5 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> --- On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, andysem at mail dot ru wrote: > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93916 > > --- Comment #4 from andysem at mail dot ru --- > Are you saying that implementation is allowed to not preserve unused storage > state upon construction and assignment? Because I don't think this is what the > standard says. I think the standard says that upon construction of an object the previous memory state becomes indeterminate. > Is there any other way to achieve the effect of initializing padding in a > struct? The only way I see would be to do that inside the constructor but I realize that's not something you control? I think the standard also gives you no way to access the padding or guarantees anything about the paddings value which essentially means you're relying on implementation behavior.
