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2025-09-28


3058. "Program point" is not defined

Section: 6.5.1  [basic.lookup.general]     Status: open     Submitter: Alisdair Meredith     Date: 2025-08-13

(From submission #749.)

There is no definition for the term "program point".

Suggested resolution:

Change in 6.5.1 [basic.lookup.general] paragraph 2 as follows:

There is a program point before the first token of the translation unit, between every pair of adjacent tokens, and after the last token of the translation unit. A program point P is said to follow any declaration in the same translation unit whose locus (6.4.2 [basic.scope.pdecl]) is before P. [Note 1: The declaration might appear in a scope that does not contain P . —end note] ...