Created on 2023-04-19.00:00:00 last changed 19 months ago
Consider:
template<class T> using A = decltype([]{}); static_assert(std::same_as<A<int>, A<int>>);
There is implementation divergence: GCC and MSVC accept, clang rejects. A similar question arises if token-identical alias templates appear in different translation units:
// appearing in multiple translation units
template<typename T> using A = decltype([]{});
inline A<int> f() { return {}; }
An alias template is a templated entity per 13.1 [temp.pre] paragraph 8.1, thus it is a definable item (6.3 [basic.def.odr] paragraph 1.5) and thus there is effectively only a single definition of it (6.3 [basic.def.odr] paragraph 15).
However, that reasoning does not address the question whether A<int> denotes the same type when it appears repeatedly in the same translation unit. Consider 13.7.7.2 [temp.over.link] paragraph 5:
Two lambda-expressions are never considered equivalent.
and 13.7.8 [temp.alias] paragraph 2
When a template-id refers to the specialization of an alias template, it is equivalent to the associated type obtained by substitution of its template-arguments for the template-parameter s in the defining-type-id of the alias template.
This means that a template-id referring to an alias template performs a fresh substitution each time it appears. There is no concept of instantiating an alias template to produce an alias declaration. Subclause 13.7.8 [temp.alias] paragraph 5 specifies:
The type of a lambda-expression appearing in an alias template declaration is different between instantiations of that template, even when the lambda-expression is not dependent.
The outcome seems unfortunate; the first example ought to be well-formed.
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