Value-initializing an automatic object?

Question

I\'m writing a template class and at one point in my code would like to be able to value-initialize an object of the parameterized type on the stack. Right now, I\'m accomp

Answer 1

No, there isn't any other way to reliably value-initialize a template type in C++03.

If you can count on T only being class types with default constructors, you could just write

T valueInitialized;

but if T might as well be a built-in type,

T valueInitialized = T();

is the way to go.

Do you have any reason to not to trust your compiler to optimize away that copy?