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2024-10-26
[Moved to DR at the February, 2014 meeting.]
According to 11.4 [class.mem] paragraph 1,
Except when used to declare friends (11.8.4 [class.friend]) or to introduce the name of a member of a base class into a derived class (9.9 [namespace.udecl]), member-declarations declare members of the class, and each such member-declaration shall declare at least one member name of the class.
Unnamed bit-fields (11.4.10 [class.bit] paragraph 2) are described as not being members, and they obviously do not declare a member name; presumably they should therefore be included among the exceptions to this rule.
Additional note (October, 2013):
Curiously, the exemption for an unnamed bit-field not introducing names is in 9.1 [dcl.pre] paragraph 3, referring to a simple-declaration. However, a simple-declaration is not a member-declaration and thus does not apply.
Proposed resolution (November, 2013):
Change 9.1 [dcl.pre] paragraph 3 as follows:
...In such cases,and except for the declaration of an unnamed bit-field (11.4.10 [class.bit]),the decl-specifier-seq shall introduce one or more names into the program, or shall redeclare a name introduced by a previous declaration. [Example:...
Change 11.4 [class.mem] paragraph 1 as follows:
...Except when used to declare friends (11.8.4 [class.friend]), to declare an unamed bit-field (11.4.10 [class.bit]), or to introduce the name of a member of a base class into a derived class (9.9 [namespace.udecl]), member-declarations declare members of the class, and each such member-declaration shall declare at least one member name of the class. A member shall not...