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2024-10-26

1815. Lifetime extension in aggregate initialization

[Moved to DR at the November, 2014 meeting.]

With the recent addition of brace-or-equal-initializers to aggregates and the presumed resolution for issue 1696, it is not clear how lifetime extension of temporaries should work in aggregate initialization. For example:

  struct A { };
  struct B { A&& a { A{} } };
  B b;         // #1
  B b{ A{} };  // #2
  B b{};       // #3

#1 is default initialization, so (presumably) the lifetime of the temporary persists only until B's default constructor exits. #2 is aggregate initialization, which binds B::a to the temporary in the initializer for b and thus extends its lifetime to that of b. #3 is aggregate initialization, but it is not clear whether the lifetime of the temporary in the non-static data member initializer for B::a should be lifetime-extended like #2 or not, like #1.

One possibility might be to extend the lifetime in #3 but to give B a deleted default constructor since it would extend the lifetime of a temporary.

See also issue 1696.

Notes from the February, 2014 meeting:

CWG agreed with the suggested direction, which would treat #3 in the example like #2 and make the default constructor deleted, resulting in #1 being ill-formed.

Proposed resolution (June, 2014):

This issue is resolved by the resolution of issue 1696.