Update: Thanks to Faisal Vali and Richard Smith, this bug has been corrected in Clang ToT; see the test file introduced by the commit.
According to §8.5.1 [dcl.init.aggr] it appears that Clang is wrong:
11/ Braces can be elided in an initializer-list as follows. If the initializer-list begins with a left brace, then the succeeding comma-separated list of initializer-clauses initializes the members of a subaggregate; it is erroneous for there to be more initializer-clauses than members. If, however, the initializer-list for a subaggregate does not begin with a left brace, then only enough initializer-clauses from the list are taken to initialize the members of the subaggregate; any remaining initializer-clauses are left to initialize the next member of the aggregate of which the current subaggregate is a member. [ Example:
float y[4][3] = { { 1, 3, 5 }, { 2, 4, 6 }, { 3, 5, 7 }, };
is a completely-braced initialization: 1, 3, and 5 initialize the first row of the array
y[0]
, namelyy[0][0]
,y[0][1]
, andy[0][2]
. Likewise the next two lines initializey[1]
andy[2]
. The initializer ends early and thereforey[3]
s elements are initialized as if explicitly initialized with an expression of the formfloat()
, that is, are initialized with0.0
. In the following example, braces in the initializer-list are elided; however the initializer-list has the same effect as the completely-braced initializer-list of the above example,float y[4][3] = { 1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7 };
The initializer for y begins with a left brace, but the one for
y[0]
does not, therefore three elements from the list are used. Likewise the next three are taken successively fory[1]
andy[2]
. —end example ]
Which I think applies because of §5.3.4 [expr.new]:
15/ A new-expression that creates an object of type T initializes that object as follows:
- If the new-initializer is omitted, the object is default-initialized (§8.5); if no initialization is performed, the object has indeterminate value.
- Otherwise, the new-initializer is interpreted according to the initialization rules of §8.5 for direct initialization.