Reference + initialiser oddity.

[Glen Able]

Kindly consider:

struct MyStruct
{
Foo* foo;
Bar& bar;
};

void Blah(Foo* foo, Bar& bar)
{
// create+initialise struct
MyStruct m = {foo, bar};
}


This works fine on a gcc port. However vc6/.net give this cryptic error:
'm' : non-aggregates cannot be initialized with initializer list.

It appears that it's the Bar& that's the problem, not the Foo*. Anyone able
to shed light on this for me?

thanks,
G.A.

 

[Victor Bazarov]

Kindly consider:

struct MyStruct
{
Foo* foo;
Bar& bar;
};

void Blah(Foo* foo, Bar& bar)
{
// create+initialise struct
MyStruct m = {foo, bar};
}


This works fine on a gcc port. However vc6/.net give this cryptic error:
'm' : non-aggregates cannot be initialized with initializer list.

It appears that it's the Bar& that's the problem, not the Foo*. Anyone able
to shed light on this for me?

VC++ has problems with brace-enclosed initialisers for aggregates.
The behaviour is somewhat fixed in the version 7.1 (I checked).

V

 

[Glen Able]

VC++ has problems with brace-enclosed initialisers for aggregates.
The behaviour is somewhat fixed in the version 7.1 (I checked).

Right, so my code's all good and legal - hurrah!

thanks,
G.A.

 

[Ioannis Vranos]

struct MyStruct
{
Foo* foo;
Bar& bar;
};

void Blah(Foo* foo, Bar& bar)
{
// create+initialise struct
MyStruct m = {foo, bar};
}


This works fine on a gcc port. However vc6/.net give this cryptic error:
'm' : non-aggregates cannot be initialized with initializer list.

It appears that it's the Bar& that's the problem, not the Foo*. Anyone able
to shed light on this for me?

Your code compiles with VC++ 7.1. Provided that I provide a definition
for both Foo and Bar.