Title
Missing built-in comparison operators for pointer types
Status
cd2
Section
12.5 [over.built]
Submitter
Daniel Krügler

Created on 2009-04-25.00:00:00 last changed 170 months ago

Messages

Date: 2009-10-15.00:00:00

[Voted into WP at October, 2009 meeting.]

Date: 2009-07-15.00:00:00

Proposed resolution (July, 2009):

  1. Add a new paragraph following 7.6.9 [expr.rel] paragraph 2:

  2. Pointers to void (after pointer conversions) can be compared, with a result defined as follows: If both pointers represent the same address or are both the null pointer value, the result is true if the operator is <= or >= and false otherwise; otherwise the result is unspecified.
  3. Change 7.6.10 [expr.eq] paragraph 1 as follows:

  4. ...Pointers to objects or functions of the same type (after pointer conversions) can be compared for equality...
  5. Change 12.5 [over.built] paragraph 15 as follows:

  6. For every T, where T is an enumeration type or, a pointer to effective object type, or std::nullptr_t, there exist candidate operator functions of the form...
Date: 2009-04-25.00:00:00

12.5 [over.built] paragraph 15 restricts the built-in comparison operators to

every T, where T is an enumeration type or pointer to effective object type

This omits both pointers to function types and pointers to void.

History
Date User Action Args
2010-03-29 00:00:00adminsetstatus: dr -> cd2
2009-11-08 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg2472
2009-11-08 00:00:00adminsetstatus: ready -> dr
2009-08-03 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg2175
2009-08-03 00:00:00adminsetstatus: open -> ready
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