This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21 Core Issues List revision 119d. See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official list.
2026-03-08
The restrictions in 6.8.4 [basic.life] paragraph 7 on when the storage for an object containing a reference member can be reused seem overly restrictive.
Rationale (August, 2011):
CWG did not find a persuasive use case for a change to the existing rules.