The Clang documentation neatly explains that
If a class or struct has no user-defined default constructor, C++ doesn't allow you to default construct a const instance of it like this ([dcl.init], p9)
The rationale being that if a const object is not correctly initialized, it cannot be changed later on. The following code has only a user-declared default constructor for Test, but all its members have in-class initializers,
#include<iostream>
class Test
{
public:
Test() = default;
void print() const { std::cout << i << "\n"; }
private:
int i = 42; // will propagate to the default constructor!
};
int main()
{
Test const t; // <-- Clang chokes on the const keyword, g++ does not
t.print(); // prints 42
}
so the rationale for also user-providing the default constructor seems superfluous to me. And indeed, g++ 4.8.1 does compile it without problems (Online Example), although Clang <= 3.2 does not.
Questions: why is the combination of complete in-class initalizers + user-declared default constructor not enough to default construct a const object? Is there a fix underway for the C++14 Standard?
UPDATE: can anyone try on Clang 3.3 / 3.4 to see if this has been fixed compared to Clang 3.2?
