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2024-04-28

2711. Source for copy-initializing the exception object

[Accepted as a DR at the June, 2023 meeting.]

Neither 14.2 [except.throw] nor 7.6.18 [expr.throw] specifiy the source for copy-initializing the exception object.

Proposed resolution (based on the resolution of issue 2699; approved by CWG 2023-06-12):

1. Change in 7.6.18 [expr.throw] paragraph 2 as follows:

   Evaluating a throw-expression with an operand throws an exception (14.2 [except.throw]); the type of the exception object is determined by removing any top-level cv-qualifiers from the static type of the operand and adjusting the type from “array of T” or function type T to “pointer to T”. The exception object is copy-initialized (9.4.1 [dcl.init.general]) from the (possibly converted) operand.

2. Change in 14.2 [except.throw] paragraph 3 as follows:

   Throwing an exception copy-initializes (9.4 [dcl.init], 11.4.5.3 [class.copy.ctor]) a temporary object, called the exception object. If the type of the exception object would be an incomplete type (6.8.1 [basic.types.general]), an abstract class type (11.7.4 [class.abstract]), or a pointer to an incomplete type other than cv void (6.8.4 [basic.compound]), the program is ill-formed.