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2024-03-20


2167. Non-member references with lifetimes within the current evaluation

Section: 7.7  [expr.const]     Status: CD4     Submitter: Richard Smith     Date: 2015-08-11

[Adopted at the February, 2016 meeting.]

The current wording of 7.7 [expr.const] bullet 2.9 says:

This incorrectly excludes non-member references whose lifetime began within the current evaluation.

Proposed resolution (February, 2016):

Change 7.7 [expr.const] bullet 2.9.2 as follows:

A conditional-expression e is a core constant expression unless the evaluation of e, following the rules of the abstract machine (6.9.1 [intro.execution]), would evaluate one of the following expressions: