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2024-12-19

1146. exception-specifications of defaulted functions

[Voted into the WP at the November, 2010 meeting.]

The note in 11.4.7 [class.dtor] paragraph 4 says,

An explictly defaulted definition has no implicit exception-specification.

There are similar notes in 11.4.5.3 [class.copy.ctor] paragraphs 15 and 29.

However, 9.5.2 [dcl.fct.def.default] bullet 2.4 says that a special member function that is explicitly defaulted on its first declaration

is implicitly considered to have the same exception-specification as if it had been implicitly declared (14.5 [except.spec])

The notes are incorrect.

Proposed resolution (August, 2010):

1. Change 11.4.7 [class.dtor] paragraph 4 as follows:

[Note: an implicitly- declared destructor has an exception-specification (15.4). An explictly defaulted definition has no implicit exception-specification. —end note]

2. Change 11.4.5.3 [class.copy.ctor] paragraph 15 as follows:

[Note: an implicitly-declared copy/move constructor has an exception-specification (15.4). An explicitly-defaulted definition (8.4.2) has no implicit exception-specification. —end note]

3. Change 11.4.5.3 [class.copy.ctor] paragraph 29 as follows:

[Note: An implicitly-declared copy/move assignment operator has an exception- specification (15.4). An explicitly-defaulted definition has no implicit exception-specification. —end note]