Initializing a union with a non-trivial constructor

Question

I have a structure which I create a custom constructor to initialize the members to 0\'s. I\'ve seen in older compilers that when in release mode, without doing a memset to

Answer 1

Can you do something like this?

class Outer
{
public:
    Outer()
    {
        memset(&inner_, 0, sizeof(inner_));
    }
private:
    union Inner
    {
        int qty_;
        double price_;
    } inner_;
};

...or maybe something like this?

union MyUnion
{
    int qty_;
    double price_;
};

void someFunction()
{
    MyUnion u = {0};
}