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2024-10-26


2461. Diagnosing non-bool type constraints

Section: 13.8  [temp.res]     Status: CD6     Submitter: Hubert Tong     Date: 2020-04-20

[Accepted at the November, 2020 meeting.]

Given the following example,

  template <typename T> struct A {};
  template <typename T> void f() requires (sizeof(A<T>)) {}

the current wording does not appear to allow diagnosis of the program as ill-formed. In particular, 13.8 [temp.res] bullet 8.2 says,

The program is ill-formed, no diagnostic required, if:

However, substitution into the requires-clause in this case would result in a valid expression, but not one that is an atomic constraint that can be checked for satisfaction.

Proposed resolution (April, 2020):

Change bullet 8.2 of 13.8 [temp.res] as follows:

The program is ill-formed, no diagnostic required, if: