Title
Default nothrow for constexpr functions
Status
c++11
Section
9.2.6 [dcl.constexpr]
Submitter
GB

Created on 2010-08-02.00:00:00 last changed 122 months ago

Messages

Date: 2010-11-15.00:00:00

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

Date: 2010-08-15.00:00:00

Proposed resolution (August, 2010):

Change 7.6.2.7 [expr.unary.noexcept] bullet 3.1 as follows:

  • a potentially evaluated call80 to a function, member function, function pointer, or member function pointer that does not have a non-throwing exception-specification (14.5 [except.spec]), unless the call is a constant expression (7.7 [expr.const]),
Date: 2010-08-15.00:00:00

Notes from the August, 2010 meeting:

The premise is not correct: an exception is forbidden only when a constexpr function is invoked in a context that requires a constant expression. Used as an ordinary function, it can throw.

Date: 2010-08-02.00:00:00
N3092 comment GB 29

A constexpr function is not permitted to return via an exception. This should be recognised, and a function declared constexpr without an explicit exception specification should be treated as if declared noexcept(true) rather than the usual noexcept(false). For a function template declared constexpr without an explicit exception specification, it should be considered noexcept(true) if and only if the constexpr keyword is respected on a given instantiation.

See also issue 1125.

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