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user2991252

Reputation: 788

Warning: non-static data member initializers - c++

I made the following program in c++ and got a compilation warning:

 warning: non-static data member initializers only available with -std=c++11 or -std=gnu++11 [enabled by default]

what does it mean?

 struct struct1 {
   int i = 10;
 };

 int main() {
   struct1 s1;
   cout << s1.i;
   return 0;

 }

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4507

Answers (1)

IdeaHat
IdeaHat

Reputation: 7881

A static data initializer is an initializer that is done outside the scope of the class. In this case, it refers to the inline initialization you did with int i = 10;. However, this code would also not like it if you did:

struct struct1 {
    int i;
};
int struct1::i=10;

In this case, you are initializing i as if all struct1's shared i, but they each have their own.

In older versions of C++, the only way to get around this is to initialize the value in the constructor:

struct struct1 {
    int i;
    struct1(): i(10) {}
};

In C++11, the standards committee decided to allow people to initialize values the way you want to, presumably to avoid this confusion (though I'm not privy to such things).

Upvotes: 6

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