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I'm puzzled. Isn't const auto ch = unsigned char{'p'}; a perfectly valid initialization expression? Fails to be compiled by all three major compilers with almost identical error messages:

error: expected '(' for function-style cast or type construction

Swapping curly braces for ('p') changes nothing.
It does, however, compile without the signed or unsigned keyword.

Online demo.

c++ c++14 c++17

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  @FrançoisAndrieux: so does const auto ch = static_cast<unsigned char>('p'), but that's conversion, not initialization.
  
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  using T = unsigned char; const auto ch = T{'p'}; seems to work.
  
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I'm puzzled. Isn't const auto ch = unsigned char{'p'}; a perfectly valid initialization expression? Fails to be compiled by all three major compilers with almost identical error messages:

error: expected '(' for function-style cast or type construction

Swapping curly braces for ('p') changes nothing.
It does, however, compile without the signed or unsigned keyword.

Online demo.

c++ c++14 c++17

share|improve this question

asked 1 hour ago

Violet GiraffeViolet Giraffe

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  @FrançoisAndrieux: so does const auto ch = static_cast<unsigned char>('p'), but that's conversion, not initialization.
  
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  using T = unsigned char; const auto ch = T{'p'}; seems to work.
  
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  @FrançoisAndrieux: Hm, do you think the compiler simply fails to parse unsigned char as a single type name in this context?
  
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  1 hour ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

I'm puzzled. Isn't const auto ch = unsigned char{'p'}; a perfectly valid initialization expression? Fails to be compiled by all three major compilers with almost identical error messages:

error: expected '(' for function-style cast or type construction

Swapping curly braces for ('p') changes nothing.
It does, however, compile without the signed or unsigned keyword.

Online demo.

c++ c++14 c++17

share|improve this question

asked 1 hour ago

Violet GiraffeViolet Giraffe

14.6k28135247

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asked 1 hour ago

Violet GiraffeViolet Giraffe

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Violet GiraffeViolet Giraffe

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Because only single-word type name could be used for this kind of explicit type conversion.

A single-word type name followed by a braced-init-list is a prvalue of the specified type designating a temporary (until C++17) whose result object is (since C++17) direct-list-initialized with the specified braced-init-list.

unsigned char is not a single-word type name, while char is. And this is true for functional cast expression too, that's why ('p') doesn't work either.

As the workaround, you can

using uc = unsigned char;

const auto ch = uc{'p'};

Or

// change it to c-style cast expression

const auto ch = (unsigned char) 'p'; 

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  Do you happen to know the reason for this limitation? Like, if multi-word type names were allowed here, what other things would become broken?
  
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  @VioletGiraffe To be honest I don't know; I only know that the standard says so.
  
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Because only single-word type name could be used for this kind of explicit type conversion.

A single-word type name followed by a braced-init-list is a prvalue of the specified type designating a temporary (until C++17) whose result object is (since C++17) direct-list-initialized with the specified braced-init-list.

unsigned char is not a single-word type name, while char is. And this is true for functional cast expression too, that's why ('p') doesn't work either.

As the workaround, you can

using uc = unsigned char;

const auto ch = uc{'p'};

Or

// change it to c-style cast expression

const auto ch = (unsigned char) 'p'; 

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edited 35 mins ago

answered 1 hour ago

songyuanyaosongyuanyao

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  Do you happen to know the reason for this limitation? Like, if multi-word type names were allowed here, what other things would become broken?
  
  – Violet Giraffe
  58 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @VioletGiraffe To be honest I don't know; I only know that the standard says so.
  
  – songyuanyao
  56 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

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Because only single-word type name could be used for this kind of explicit type conversion.

A single-word type name followed by a braced-init-list is a prvalue of the specified type designating a temporary (until C++17) whose result object is (since C++17) direct-list-initialized with the specified braced-init-list.

unsigned char is not a single-word type name, while char is. And this is true for functional cast expression too, that's why ('p') doesn't work either.

As the workaround, you can

using uc = unsigned char;

const auto ch = uc{'p'};

Or

// change it to c-style cast expression

const auto ch = (unsigned char) 'p'; 

share|improve this answer

edited 35 mins ago

answered 1 hour ago

songyuanyaosongyuanyao

92.2k11175242

• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Do you happen to know the reason for this limitation? Like, if multi-word type names were allowed here, what other things would become broken?
  
  – Violet Giraffe
  58 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @VioletGiraffe To be honest I don't know; I only know that the standard says so.
  
  – songyuanyao
  56 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

Because only single-word type name could be used for this kind of explicit type conversion.

A single-word type name followed by a braced-init-list is a prvalue of the specified type designating a temporary (until C++17) whose result object is (since C++17) direct-list-initialized with the specified braced-init-list.

unsigned char is not a single-word type name, while char is. And this is true for functional cast expression too, that's why ('p') doesn't work either.

As the workaround, you can

using uc = unsigned char;

const auto ch = uc{'p'};

Or

// change it to c-style cast expression

const auto ch = (unsigned char) 'p'; 

share|improve this answer

edited 35 mins ago

answered 1 hour ago

songyuanyaosongyuanyao

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using uc = unsigned char;

const auto ch = uc{'p'};

// change it to c-style cast expression

const auto ch = (unsigned char) 'p'; 

share|improve this answer

edited 35 mins ago

answered 1 hour ago

songyuanyaosongyuanyao

92.2k11175242

answered 1 hour ago

songyuanyaosongyuanyao

92.2k11175242

answered 1 hour ago

songyuanyaosongyuanyao

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