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2024-10-26

2648. Correspondence of surrogate call function and conversion function

[Accepted as a DR at the November, 2022 meeting.]

Post-Prague "editorial" change cplusplus/draft#3625 removed the normative text supporting the interpretation that surrogate call functions, when chosen, call the functions they were formed from.

Proposed resolution (approved by CWG 2022-11-08):

Change in 12.4.4 [over.call] paragraph 1 as follows:

If a surrogate call function for a conversion function named operator conversion-type-id is selected, let e be the result of invoking the corresponding conversion operator function on the postfix-expression; is invoked the expression is interpreted as

postfix-expression . operator conversion-type-id () e ( expression-listopt )

Otherwise, ...