Title
Pointer to member of nested anonymous union
Status
cd4
Section
7.6.2.2 [expr.unary.op]
Submitter
Richard Smith

Created on 2013-10-22.00:00:00 last changed 87 months ago

Messages

Date: 2014-11-15.00:00:00

[Moved to DR at the November, 2014 meeting.]

Date: 2014-02-15.00:00:00

Proposed resolution (February, 2014):

Change 7.6.2.2 [expr.unary.op] paragraph 3 as follows:

The result of the unary & operator is a pointer to its operand. The operand shall be an lvalue or a qualified-id. If the operand is a qualified-id naming a non-static or variant member m of some class C with type T, the result has type “pointer to member of class C of type T” and is a prvalue designating C::m. Otherwise...
Date: 2013-10-22.00:00:00

According to 7.6.2.2 [expr.unary.op] paragraph 3,

The result of the unary & operator is a pointer to its operand. The operand shall be an lvalue or a qualified-id. If the operand is a qualified-id naming a non-static member m of some class C with type T, the result has type “pointer to member of class C of type T” and is a prvalue designating C::m.

It is not clear whether this wording applies to variant members of C (i.e., members of nested anonymous unions) or only to its non-variant members. For example, given

  struct A { union { int n; }; };
  auto x = &A::n;

should the type of x be int A::* or int A::anon::*? Current implementations choose the former.

History
Date User Action Args
2017-02-06 00:00:00adminsetstatus: drwp -> cd4
2015-05-25 00:00:00adminsetstatus: dr -> drwp
2015-04-13 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg5342
2014-11-24 00:00:00adminsetstatus: ready -> dr
2014-03-03 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg4808
2014-03-03 00:00:00adminsetstatus: open -> ready
2013-10-22 00:00:00admincreate