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2024-12-19
Although 9.12.2 [dcl.align] paragraph 6 requires that all declarations of a given entity must have the same alignment, enforcing that requirement for class templates would require instantiating all declarations of the template, a process not otherwise needed. For example:
template<int M, int N> struct alignas(M) X;
template<int M, int N> struct alignas(N) X {};
The same problem would presumably afflict any attribute applied to a class template.
Rationale (April, 2013):
9.12.2 [dcl.align] paragraph 6 requires that the alignments be “equivalent,” which in a dependent context is specified by 13.7.7.2 [temp.over.link] paragraph 5. The expressions in this example are not equivalent.