bug#19867: c++-mode indentation issues with C++1x initializer lists

[Alan M. <ac...@mu...>]

Hello, Stefan.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 09:54:20 -0700, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Stefan Kangas <ste...@gm...> writes:

> > Simon <tur...@gm...> writes:

> >> Initializer lists use curly braces, but their contents do not indent properly with emacs' c++-mode.
> >> In short, one may use an initializer list to declare and initialize a vector of integers as such:
> >>   std::vector<int> Foo( { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 } );

> >> Problems arise when the elements of the list span on multiple line and it gets even worse when the elements are lambda-expressions
> >> and nested initializer lists.
> >> The following code illustrate most cases and related situations.  The code below compiles without error or warning with gcc 4.8.3.

> > I had a look at the fairly long example provided here, and AFAICT, the
> > indentation is incorrect in the below cases (trimmed down from the
> > original).  Some of the examples of incorrect indentation were already
> > fixed.

> > Alan, could you perhaps take a look at this and see if this is something
> > that is fixable?  Thanks in advance.

> Alan, any chance you could look into the below cases?  Thanks in advance.

Yes, I'll do this.  Sorry I never replied to your post in 2020.  I
started looking at the bug then, but somehow didn't get very far with it.
Maybe it was because there were so many individual glitches in the
report.  Thanks for distilling the cases which still remain unfixed.

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).