Title
Accessing ambiguous subobjects
Status
open
Section
7.6.1.5 [expr.ref]
Submitter
Davis Herring

Created on 2023-02-11.00:00:00 last changed 13 months ago

Messages

Date: 2023-03-11.18:07:02

Suggested resolution:

Change 11.8.3 [class.access.base] paragraph 6 to actually perform the conversion it requires, possibly moving it to 7.6.1.5 [expr.ref] since it is not about access control; the definition of "naming class" in 11.8.3 [class.access.base] paragraph 5 would then need to be italicized.

Date: 2023-02-11.00:00:00

Consider:

  struct A {int i;};
  struct X : A {};
  struct Y : A {};
  struct S : X,Y {};

  void f(S &s) {++s.X::i;}

There is a rule that &s be able to "be implicitly converted to a pointer to the naming class of the right operand" (11.8.3 [class.access.base] paragraph 6), which correctly selects X here, but 7.6.1.5 [expr.ref] bullet 6.2 merely says that

If E2 is a non-static data member [...], the expression designates the corresponding member subobject of the object designated by the first expression.

E2 (i.e. X::i) and Y::i equally denote A::i (since name lookup produces declarations), but there is no rule that indicates which A::i is selected as the "corresponding member subobject". (Note that s.X::A::i means the same as s.A::i and is ambiguous.)

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