Title
Use of a reference as a non-type template argument
Status
c++11
Section
13.4.3 [temp.arg.nontype]
Submitter
Mike Miller

Created on 2010-01-31.00:00:00 last changed 123 months ago

Messages

Date: 2010-11-15.00:00:00

[Voted into the WP at the November, 2010 meeting.]

Date: 2010-09-15.00:00:00

Proposed resolution (September, 2010):

Change 13.4.3 [temp.arg.nontype] bullet 1.3 as follows:

  • a constant expression (7.7 [expr.const]) that designates the address of an object or function with external linkage, including function templates and function template-ids but excluding non-static class members, expressed (ignoring parentheses) as & id-expression, except that the & may be omitted if the name refers to a function or array and shall be omitted if the corresponding template-parameter is a reference; or

Date: 2010-01-31.00:00:00

The current wording of 13.4.3 [temp.arg.nontype] paragraph 1 does not prevent the use a reference as a non-type template argument. It simply requires

the address of an object or function with external linkage... expressed as & id-expression...

This would presumably (but unintentionally?) allow an example like the following:

    struct S { };
    template<S*> struct X { };
    S s;
    S& ref = s;
    X<&ref> xr;   // well-formed?

The expression &ref is not a constant expression, but the current wording of 13.4.3 [temp.arg.nontype] does not require a constant expression.

History
Date User Action Args
2014-03-03 00:00:00adminsetstatus: fdis -> c++11
2011-04-10 00:00:00adminsetstatus: dr -> fdis
2010-11-29 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg3197
2010-11-29 00:00:00adminsetstatus: tentatively ready -> dr
2010-10-18 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg2993
2010-10-18 00:00:00adminsetstatus: drafting -> tentatively ready
2010-08-23 00:00:00adminsetstatus: open -> drafting
2010-01-31 00:00:00admincreate