On 5 February 2013 10:15, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 5 February 2013 10:09, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >>> Is this a bug in the 4.7.1 compiler or did the compiler change to conform >>> to some standard that does not allow vector's to initialized to NULL. >> >> I don't think it changed in quite some time. It's a very well known >> problem, see http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-defects.html#438, >> but the implementation is supposed to ensure it works. I can't >> remember if we have an open bug about it still. > > Looking into it further, I think we conform to C++ 2003 + DRs and the > workarounds given earlier are necessary. > > In C++ 2011 the implementation should accept the code, so we'll have > to fix that. This is the DR we don't implement yet: http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-defects.html#1234
