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2024-10-26

1237. Deprecated implicit copy assignment in example

[Voted into the WP at the March, 2011 meeting as part of paper N3262.]

An implicit declaration of a copy assignment operator is deprecated if the class has a user-declared copy constructor or a user-declared destructor. However, the example in 6.7.7 [class.temporary] relies on such an implicit declaration; an explicit declaration for the copy assignment operator for class X should be provided:

    class X {
    public:
      X(int);
      X(const X&);
      ~X();
    };

    class Y {
    public:
      Y(int);
      Y(Y&&);
      ~Y();
    };

    X f(X);
    Y g(Y);

    void h() {
      X a(1);
      X b = f(X(2));
      Y c = g(Y(3));
      a = f(a);  // relies on implicitly-declared X::operator=(const X&)
    }