------- Additional Comments From giovannibajo at libero dot it 2004-10-28 03:35 ------- > -Winit-self has nothing to do with this problem really. > in this case :a(a) is equivalent to this->a = this->a;
Not really. The member-list syntax is used to *initialize* the members, not to assign a value to them after a default initialization. I think it makes sense to warn only with -Winit-self. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18016
