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2024-11-11

2725. Overload resolution for non-call of class member access

[Accepted as a DR at the November, 2023 meeting.]

Consider:

  struct A {
    static void f();
    static void f(int);
  } x;
  void (*p)() = x.f;   // error

This is ill-formed as confirmed by issue 61. Various other changes (see issue 2241) have put the following example into the same category:

  struct B {
    static void f();
  } y;
  void (*q)() = y.f;   // error

If this is the intended outcome (although major implementations disagree), then the rules in 7.6.1.5 [expr.ref] should be clarified accordingly.

Proposed resolution (approved by CWG 2023-06-13):

Change in 7.6.1.5 [expr.ref] bullet 6.3 as follows:

• ...
• If E2 is an overload set, the expression shall be the (possibly-parenthesized) left-hand operand of a member function call (7.6.1.3 [expr.call]), and function overload resolution (12.2 [over.match]) is used to select the function to which E2 refers. The type of E1.E2 is the type of E2 and E1.E2 refers to the function referred to by E2.
  • If E2 refers to a static member function, E1.E2 is an lvalue.
  • Otherwise (when E2 refers to a non-static member function), E1.E2 is a prvalue. The expression can be used only as the left-hand operand of a member function call (11.4.2 [class.mfct]). [Note 5: Any redundant set of parentheses surrounding the expression is ignored (7.5.4 [expr.prim.paren]). —end note]
• ...

This also addresses issue 1038.