Title
`shared_ptr(nullptr_t, Deleter)` is overconstrained, breaking some sensible deleters
Status
new
Section
[util.smartptr.shared.const]
Submitter
Louis Dionne

Created on 2024-06-11.00:00:00 last changed 2 months ago

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Date: 2024-06-11.08:43:20

Proposed resolution:

This wording is relative to N4981.

  1. In [util.smartptr.shared.const]/9, specify that `shared_ptr(nullptr_t p, D d);` checks whether d(static_cast<T*>(nullptr)) is well-formed. This requires expressing the the constraints for the `Y*` constructors and the `nullptr_t` constructors separately, which is mostly editorial:
    
    template<class Y, class D> shared_ptr(Y* p, D d);
    template<class Y, class D, class A> shared_ptr(Y* p, D d, A a);
    template<class D> shared_ptr(nullptr_t p, D d);
    template<class D, class A> shared_ptr(nullptr_t p, D d, A a);
    

    -9- Constraints: is_move_constructible_v<D> is `true`, and `d(p)` is a well-formed expression. For the first two overloads:

    1. (9.1) If `T` is an array type, then either `T` is `U[N]` and `Y(*)[N]` is convertible to `T*`, or `T` is `U[]` and `Y(*)[]` is convertible to `T*`.
    2. (9.2) If `T` is not an array type, then `Y*` is convertible to `T*`.

    
    template<class D> shared_ptr(nullptr_t p, D d);
    template<class D, class A> shared_ptr(nullptr_t p, D d, A a);
    

    -?- Constraints: is_move_constructible_v<D> is `true`, and d(static_cast<T*>(p)) is a well-formed expression.

Date: 2024-06-11.00:00:00

The following code doesn't compile on conforming implementations:


    #include <memory>

    void f() {
        std::shared_ptr<int>(new int, [](auto pointer) { delete pointer; });
    }
(Godbolt)

This is caused by the constraint on `shared_ptr(nullptr_t p, D d);` being that `d(p)` is valid ([util.smartptr.shared.const] p9), which leads to a hard error inside the lambda since it is called with a `nullptr_t`. This seems unintended.

See LLVM issue 93071 comment for additional context.

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