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2024-09-25
[Adopted at the February/March, 2017 meeting.]
According to the rules in 6.6 [basic.link] paragraph 4, the enumerators of an enumeration type with linkage also have linkage. Having same-named enumerators in different translation units would seem to be innocuous. Is there a rationale for this rule?
Proposed resolution (March, 2017):
Delete 6.6 [basic.link] bullet 4.5:
An unnamed namespace or a namespace declared directly or indirectly within an unnamed namespace has internal linkage. All other namespaces have external linkage. A name having namespace scope that has not been given internal linkage above has the same linkage as the enclosing namespace if it is the name of
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an enumerator belonging to an enumeration with linkage; or...
Change 6.6 [basic.link] paragraph 9 as follows:
Two names that are the same (6.1 [basic.pre]) and that are declared in different scopes shall denote the same variable, function, type,enumerator,template or namespace if...