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Document number: P0187R0

Date: 2015-11-20

P0187R0: Proposal of Bitfield Default Member Initializers

by Andrew Tomazos

Abstract:

We propose default member initializers for bitfields. Example:

struct S {
  int x : 6 = 42;
};

To ease parsing we specify a rule, roughly summarized as “you have to use =, and = always starts the initializer”.