https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96868
Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
Last reconfirmed| |2026-01-07
Ever confirmed|0 |1
--- Comment #11 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to GCC Commits from comment #8)
> The manual is incorrect in saying that the option does not warn
> about designated initializers, which it does in C++. Whether the
> divergence in behavior is desirable is another thing, but let's
> at least make the manual match the reality.
I think it's not desirable, I think the C front-end gets this right. So
confirmed.
To summarize, C does not warn here, and C++ does:
struct S { int i; int j; };
struct S s = { .i = 1 };
dinit.cc:2:23: warning: missing initializer for member 'S::j'
[-Wmissing-field-initializers]
2 | struct S s = { .i = 1 };
| ^
