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Feature: `constexpr` default constructor

Open burnpanck opened this issue 11 months ago • 0 comments

Although in an older issue, it was concluded that general constexpr may be difficult to achieve, I believe there would be considerable benefit in just a constexpr default constructor for the container types and the hooks. Since C++20, we have the constinit specifier for global variables, which means the global can be initialised without running code, which is desirable especially in bare-metal/kernel scenarios, where there is little one can rely on during early boot. However, constinit requires a constexpr constructor, for obvious reasons. Global containers in bare-metal scenarios usually start-off empty, so a default constructor that is constexpr would already go a long way.

burnpanck avatar Mar 15 '24 16:03 burnpanck