Title
Can nullptr be passed to an ellipsis?
Status
cd2
Section
7.6.1.3 [expr.call]
Submitter
Alisdair Meredith

Created on 2008-09-25.00:00:00 last changed 170 months ago

Messages

Date: 2010-03-15.00:00:00

[Voted into WP at March, 2010 meeting.]

Date: 2010-02-15.00:00:00

Proposed resolution (February, 2010):

Change 7.6.1.3 [expr.call] paragraph 7 as follows:

When there is no parameter for a given argument, the argument is passed in such a way that the receiving function can obtain the value of the argument by invoking va_arg (17.13 [support.runtime]). [Note: This paragraph does not apply to arguments passed to a function parameter pack. Function parameter packs are expanded during template instantiation (13.7.4 [temp.variadic]), thus each such argument has a corresponding parameter when a function template specialization is actually called. —end note] The lvalue-to-rvalue (7.3.2 [conv.lval]), array-to-pointer (7.3.3 [conv.array]), and function-to-pointer (7.3.4 [conv.func]) standard conversions are performed on the argument expression. An argument that has (possibly cv-qualified) type std::nullptr_t is converted to type void* (7.3.12 [conv.ptr]). After these conversions...
Date: 2009-10-15.00:00:00

Notes from the October, 2009 meeting:

The CWG agreed that this should be supported and the effect should be like passing (void*)nullptr.

Date: 2008-09-25.00:00:00

The current wording of 7.6.1.3 [expr.call] paragraph 7 is:

After these conversions, if the argument does not have arithmetic, enumeration, pointer, pointer to member, or effective class type, the program is ill-formed.

It's not clear whether this is intended to exclude anything other than void, but the effect is to disallow passing nullptr to ellipsis. That seems unnecessary.

History
Date User Action Args
2010-03-29 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg2674
2010-03-29 00:00:00adminsetstatus: tentatively ready -> cd2
2010-02-16 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg2494
2010-02-16 00:00:00adminsetstatus: drafting -> tentatively ready
2009-11-08 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg2383
2009-08-03 00:00:00adminsetstatus: open -> drafting
2008-09-25 00:00:00admincreate