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2024-10-26

1241. Which members does a destructor destroy?

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

The current wording of 11.4.7 [class.dtor] paragraph 7 says,

After executing the body of the destructor and destroying any automatic objects allocated within the body, a destructor for class X calls the destructors for X's direct non-variant members...

This is incorrect; it is only the non-static members that are destroyed.