Please can you clarify the potential problem you see here so I can fix this another way.

Are you concerned about the use of a delegating constructor like is used on line 52?

Are you concerned about the use of a delegating constructor like is used on line 52?

Yes.

Also, you are probably the only one that compiles the unit tests with clang. I'm reluctant to make this change to just accomodate a single user (sorry, but we've got to keep the bigger picture in mind, and clang is more exotic than plain old GCC).

If you can fix your issue with#pragmas, that would also be a way. But no ctor delegation, sorry.

The problem here isn't specific to clang but more to do with newer versions of the compilers. I get the same error with GCC-13

[  1%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/test-ArduinoCore-API.dir/src/CanMsg/test_CanMsg.cpp.oIn file included from .../ArduinoCore-API/test/src/CanMsg/test_CanMsg.cpp:11:.../ArduinoCore-API/test/../api/CanMsg.h: In copy constructor 'arduino::CanMsg::CanMsg(const arduino::CanMsg&)':.../ArduinoCore-API/test/../api/CanMsg.h:58:36: error: the address of 'arduino::CanMsg::data' will never be NULL [-Werror=address]   58 |     if (this->data_length && other.data)      |                              ~~~~~~^~~~

The warning is correct,other.data can never be null because it's an array member and not a pointer, and warnings are treated as fatal errors.

So the simple fix here is just to remove the redundant check and I can update the PR to do that.

However, I'm unclear on the concern with delegating constructors: they are a C++11 feature which is the language version used by the API, and they are already used elsewhere in the code, for example online 52 of this file.

Branch updated not to use constructor delegation. Should I create a new PR or would you reopen this one?

Should I create a new PR or would you reopen this one?

Just reopen this PR.

Should I create a new PR or would you reopen this one?

Just reopen this PR.

I don't see the buttons for that. I'm guessing I don't have permission and so it would need to be reopened by committer.

It looks like it is impossible to reopen this pull request due to changes to the head branch:

So it will be necessary to open a new PR.

Thanks for checking. I rebased and so had to force push, I guess that broke it.
Reopened as#224