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2025-10-11

3077. Undesirable formation of import directive with string-literal

(From submission #769.)

Consider:

  #define STR(X) #X
  const char *str = STR(
  import u8"hello";     // #1
  );

Line #1 is recognized as an import directive, even though the eventual attempt to form a header-name will be IFNDR (see issue 3076). This is incongruent with the stated design goal of P1857: since a header-name is lexed right away, any string-literals that remain are necessarily invalid.

Proposed resolution (approved by CWG 2025-09-26):

Change in 15.1 [cpp.pre] bullet 1.2 as follows:

• ...
• an import preprocessing token immediately followed on the same logical source line by a header-name, <, identifier, string-literal, or : preprocessing token, or
• ...