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

I assume the structure is provided to you and cannot be modified. If you can change the structure, then the obvious solution is adding a constructor.

Don't over engineer your code with C++ wrappers when all you want is a simple macro to initialise your structure.

#include 

#define MY_STRUCT(x) MY_STRUCT x = {0}

struct MY_STRUCT
{
    int n1;
    int n2;
};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    MY_STRUCT(s);

    printf("n1(%d),n2(%d)\n", s.n1, s.n2);

    return 0;
}