This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21 Core Issues List revision 115e. See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official list.
2024-11-11
[Adopted at the February, 2019 meeting as part of paper P1009R2.]
The syntax for noptr-new-declarator in 7.6.2.8 [expr.new] paragraph 1 requires an expression, even though the bound could be inferred from a braced-init-list initializer. It is not clear whether 9.4.2 [dcl.init.aggr] paragraph 4,
An array of unknown size initialized with a brace-enclosed initializer-list containing n initializer-clauses, where n shall be greater than zero, is defined as having n elements (9.3.4.5 [dcl.array]).
should be considered to apply to the new-type-id variant, e.g.,
new (int[]){1, 2, 3}
Additional note (August, 2012):
The consensus during the 2012-08-13 drafting review teleconference was that this issue should be referred to the Evolution Working Group and not handled by the Core Working Group.