Is this C++ structure initialization trick safe?

Question

Instead of having to remember to initialize a simple \'C\' structure, I might derive from it and zero it in the constructor like this:

struct MY_STRUCT
{
            


        

Answer 1

Comment on litb's answer (seems I'm not yet allowed to comment directly):

Even with this nice C++-style solution you have to be very careful that you don't apply this naively to a struct containing a non-POD member.

Some compilers then don't initialize correctly anymore.

See this answer to a similar question. I personally had the bad experience on VC2008 with an additional std::string.