In article 1@nnrp1.dejanews.com, A.Stokes@globalcomm.co.uk writes:
>In article <6k49v6$7hr@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM>,
>  clamage@Eng wrote:
>....
>> It's quite reasonable for the compiler to warn about passing "this"
>> to a base class, since you've opened the door to a bug that might
>> be hard to track down.
>
>Isn't this actually ill-formed, or possibly just undefined, and isn't the
>diagnostic required? The FDIS defines the meaning of 'this' in the body of a
>nonstatic member function (9.3.2, [class.this]), but that doesn't include a
>constructor member/base initialiser list.

No. Section 5.1 "Primary expressions" paragraph 3 says explicitly that
"this" may appear in a member/base initializer list.

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