http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53494
--- Comment #16 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-05-29 23:34:14 UTC --- (In reply to comment #14) > struct pair > { > pair(const char*, int) { } > }; > > struct array_p > { > pair data[1]; > }; > > array_p a = { { "smile", 1 } }; > > Here we have definitively brace elision in action, but I get the same error as > from Jonathan's example. "If the initializer-list begins with a left brace," which it does "then the succeeding comma-separated list of initializer-clauses initializes the members of a subaggregate;" I read that to mean that { "smile", 1 } initializes the pair[1] "it is erroneous for there to be more initializer-clauses than members." There is only one member of pair[1] but two initializer-clauses. So I think the error is required, but Daniel is usually right about such things so I'm not certain :)