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2024-10-26


910. Move constructors and implicitly-declared copy constructors

Section: 11.4.5.3  [class.copy.ctor]     Status: CD2     Submitter: Daveed Vandevoorde     Date: 4 June, 2009

[Voted into WP at March, 2010 meeting as document N3053.]

A constructor of the form T::T(T&&) is a candidate function for copy construction; however, the declaration of such a constructor does not inhibit the implicit declaration and definition of a copy constructor. This can lead to surprising results. We should consider suppressing the implicit copy constructor if a move constructor is declared.