What's the point of g++ -Wreorder?

Question

The g++ -Wall option includes -Wreorder. What this option does is described below. It is not obvious to me why somebody would care (especially enough to turn this on by de

Answer 1

Consider:

struct A {
    int i;
    int j;
    A() : j(0), i(j) { }
};

Now i is initialized to some unknown value, not zero.

Alternatively, the initialization of i may have some side effects for which the order is important. E.g.

A(int n) : j(n++), i(n++) { }