https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93916
--- Comment #8 from andysem at mail dot ru --- (In reply to rguent...@suse.de from comment #5) > > Is there any other way to achieve the effect of initializing padding in a > > struct? > > The only way I see would be to do that inside the constructor but I > realize that's not something you control? Exactly. Also, I don't think you can portably access padding bits, except to do memset over the object storage, like in my attempt. But then the constructor has to manually initialize all members. And that would make the class non-trivially copyable, which is not suitable in my case anyway.
