Bug#195468: g++-3.3: default construction fails when no explicit default constructor defined

[Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:26:32PM +0200, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> $ cat static_var.cc
> 
> class bar {
> public:
>   int operator()(int i) { return i; }
>   //bar (void) {} // default constructor
> };
> 
> const bar b = bar (); // works always...
> const bar b2; // fails if there is no explicit default constructor
> $ g++ -c -O0 -Wall static_var.cc
> static_var.cc:9: uninitialized const `b2'
> $
> 
> if the commented out default constructor is enabled, compilation
> succeeds...

Or if you declare b2 as non-const.  This is not a bug.

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