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2024-11-11
According to 9.5.2 [dcl.fct.def.default] paragraph 2,
An explicitly-defaulted function may be declared constexpr only if it would have been implicitly declared as constexpr...
This is relevant for wrapper functions like
template<class T> struct wrap {
T t;
constexpr wrap() = default;
constexpr wrap(const wrap&) = default;
};
It is not clear how the new wording for constexpr member functions of class templates in the proposed resolution issue 1358 affects this:
If the instantiated template specialization of a constexpr function template or member function of a class template would fail to satisfy the requirements for a constexpr function or constexpr constructor, that specialization is still a constexpr function or constexpr constructor, even though a call to such a function cannot appear in a constant expression.
Rationale (April, 2013):
The specification is as intended. The defaulted constructor will be constexpr if it can be, so it should not be explicitly declared constexpr in order to avoid the problems mentioned.