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2026-06-27

3194. Lexing of <=>

(From submission #910.)

Consider:

  #include <=>

Is this lexed as a header-name or a punctuator?

Proposed resolution (approved by CWG 2026-06-26):

Change in 5.5 [lex.pptoken] bullet 5.4.1 as follows:

• ...
• Otherwise, the next preprocessing token is the longest sequence of characters that could constitute a preprocessing token, even if that would cause further lexical analysis to fail, except that
  • a string-literal different kind of preprocessing token is never formed when a header-name preprocessing token can be formed, and
  • ...

CWG 2026-06-26

The proposed resolution also addresses issue 3205.