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2024-10-26
[Adopted as a DR at the November, 2019 meeting.]
The list of entities in 6.3 [basic.def.odr] paragraph 12 that can have multiple definitions across translation units does not, but should, include variable templates.
Proposed resolution (October, 2019):
[Drafting note: “with external linkage” is not needed for the inline entities because the other cases - entities attached to a named module and multiple definitions in the same translation unit - are ruled out later in that paragraph.]There can be more than one definition of a
class type (Clause 11 [class]),
enumeration type (9.7.1 [dcl.enum]),
inline function or variable
with external linkage(9.2.8 [dcl.inline]),
inline variable with external linkage (9.2.8 [dcl.inline]),
class template (Clause 13 [temp]),
non-static function template (13.7.7 [temp.fct]),
concept (13.7.9 [temp.concept]),
static data member of a class template (13.7.2.5 [temp.static]),
member function of a class template (13.7.2.2 [temp.mem.func]),
template specialization for which some template parameters are not specified (13.9 [temp.spec], 13.7.6 [temp.spec.partial]),templated entity (13.1 [temp.pre]),
default argument for a parameter (for a function in a given scope), or
default template argument
in a program provided that...