POD in Visual Studio 2008

Question

The following code

#include <iostream>
#include <new>
#include <cstring>
#include <type_traits>

template<typename T>
void is_pod(char* c)
{
    cout << "Type " << c;
    if(std::is_pod<T>::value)
        ::std::cout << " is POD" << endl;
    else
        ::std::cout << " is not!" << endl;
}

#define CHECK_TYPE(ty) ::is_pod<ty>(#ty)

struct POD_Parent{};
struct POD_Child : public POD_Parent{int y;};
struct POD_Child2 {int x; POD_Parent y; POD_Child ssd;};

int main()
{
    CHECK_TYPE(POD_Parent);
    CHECK_TYPE(POD_Child);
    CHECK_TYPE(POD_Child2);

Gives the following results: Which is strange!

Type POD_Parent is POD
Type POD_Child is not!
Type POD_Child2 is POD

How can POD_Child is not POD?! and POD_Child2 is POD?!!

Note that I compiled it using MinGW (using option -std=c++11) and it said that all of them are POD.

sorry i didn't see POD_Child as a member of POD_Child2, i deleted the answer as it was not correct :) — Hayri Uğur Koltuk, Feb 19 '13 at 16:39
[Things have changed (quite a bit) since 2008](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4178175/what-are-aggregates-and-pods-and-how-why-are-they-special/7189821#7189821), and the old compiler has probably just got it wrong. — Bo Persson, Feb 19 '13 at 16:47
VC2012 the same result. It is a bug, obviously. So, please, file it to MS connect — ixSci, Feb 19 '13 at 17:09
It must be a bug in MSVC. More on POD types: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/146452/what-are-pod-types-in-c — kispaljr, Feb 26 '13 at 09:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 19 '13 at 16:58

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According to [MSDN][1] a type that has a base class is not POD so POD_Child is not POD but for POD_Child2 its possibly some mistake of the compiler that ignore base class of ssd

answered Feb 19 '13 at 16:58

BigBoss

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