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2024-11-11

2883. Definition of "odr-usable" ignores lambda scopes

[Accepted as a DR at the June, 2024 meeting.]

(From submission #523.)

Consider:

  void f() {
    int x;
    [&] {
      return x;       // #1
    };
  }

The odr-use of x is ill-formed, because x is not odr-usable in that scope, because there is a lambda scope (6.4.5 [basic.scope.lambda]) between #1 and the definition of x.

A more involved example exhibits implementation divergence:

  struct A {
    A() = default;
    A(const A &) = delete;
    constexpr operator int() { return 42; }
  };
  void f() {
    constexpr A a;
    [=]<typename T, int = a> {};   // OK, not odr-usable from a default template argument, and not odr-used
  }

Proposed resolution (approved by CWG 2024-05-31):

Change in 6.3 [basic.def.odr] paragraph 10 as follows:

A local entity (6.1 [basic.pre]) is odr-usable in a scope (6.4.1 [basic.scope.scope]) if:

• either the local entity is not *this, or an enclosing class or non-lambda function parameter scope exists and, if the innermost such scope is a function parameter scope, it corresponds to a non-static member function, and
• for each intervening scope (6.4.1 [basic.scope.scope]) between the point at which the entity is introduced and the scope (where *this is considered to be introduced within the innermost enclosing class or non-lambda function definition scope), either:
  • the intervening scope is a block scope, or
  • the intervening scope is the function parameter scope of a lambda-expression, or
  • the intervening scope is the lambda scope of a lambda-expression that has a simple-capture naming the entity or has a capture-default, and the block scope of the lambda-expression is also an intervening scope.

If a local entity is odr-used in a scope in which it is not odr-usable, the program is ill-formed.