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2024-10-26
[Voted into the WP at the February, 2012 meeting; moved to DR at the October, 2012 meeting.]
Consider the following example:
struct X { unsigned bitfield : 4; }; int main() { X x = { 1 }; unsigned const &ref = static_cast<X &&>(x).bitfield; }
According to 9.4.4 [dcl.init.ref] paragraph 5, ref is bound to the bit-field xvalue.
Proposed resolution (August, 2011):
Change the indicated sub-bullet of 9.4.4 [dcl.init.ref] paragraph 5 as follows:
is an xvalue (but is not a bit-field), class prvalue, array prvalue or function lvalue and “cv1 T1” is reference-compatible with “cv2 T2”, or