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C++ file with following code compiles without any complaint on GCC and
Microsoft Visual C++.

int main() {
int something = {42}; // 1. LOC that makes me sick
// something = something; // To silent unused variable warning
}

{...} seems perfect for initialization for a structure or an array.
My question is; why is it valid to initialize an int with {42}?
Sometimes I think it is okay, but some other time this is confusing.
Please help.

Microsoft Visual C++ also compiles the following lines without any
complaints:
2. int weird[2] = {{{12}}};
3. int weirder = { { 3,} ,};

On 11/2/2011 9:30 AM, MJ_India wrote:
> C++ file with following code compiles without any complaint on GCC and
> Microsoft Visual C++.
>
> int main() {
> int something = {42}; // 1. LOC that makes me sick
> // something = something; // To silent unused variable warning
> }
>
> {...} seems perfect for initialization for a structure or an array.
> My question is; why is it valid to initialize an int with {42}?
> Sometimes I think it is okay, but some other time this is confusing.
> Please help.
>
> Microsoft Visual C++ also compiles the following lines without any
> complaints:
> 2. int weird[2] = {{{12}}};
> 3. int weirder = { { 3,} ,};

I think the curly braces are optional when writing the initialization of
a scalar variable. Commas are optional in some cases, but I am not sure
they are allowed in initializers; can simply be VC++ extension.

V
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On Wed, 2011-11-02, MJ_India wrote:
> C++ file with following code compiles without any complaint on GCC and
> Microsoft Visual C++.
>
> int main() {
> int something = {42}; // 1. LOC that makes me sick
> // something = something; // To silent unused variable warning
> }

Confirmed, with g++ and full warnings enabled. It must be standard C
and C++. That was news to me too, after ~20 years of C and C++
programming.

And yes, it makes me a bit sick too. On the other hand I have never
seen it cause any confusion in practice.

/Jorgen

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