>uninitialised variables are warned against when compiling with the (hopefully standard) -Wall -Werror Not with GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi

>uninitialised variables are warned against when compiling with the (hopefully standard) -Wall -Werror Not with GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18501 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18501 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55873 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55873 Obviously it should warn you, but when one of the most popular C++ compilers has been failing to report uninitialised variables for 10 years then I think that the issue is worth raising. Clearly significant sections of the C++ community don't place a high value on the accuracy of these kinds of compiler warnings.