CWG Issue 2605 (original) (raw)

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2025-04-13

2605. Implicit-lifetime aggregates

Section: 11.2 [class.prop]Status: C++23Submitter: Davis HerringDate: 2022-06-27

[Accepted as a DR at the November, 2022 meeting.]

Subclause 11.2 [class.prop] paragraph 9 specifies:

A class S is an implicit-lifetime class if

However, an aggregate may have a non-deleted non-trivial destructor:

struct X { Y i; ~X(); };

This class is an aggregate, but destroying X itself (ignoring the subobjects) does not satisfy "destroying an instance of the type runs no code"; see P0593R6 "Implicit creation of objects for low-level object manipulation" section 3.1.

Additional notes (September, 2022):

From a thread startinghere: What if X had a deleted destructor (either explicitly or implicitly)?

CWG 2022-11-09:

A deleted destructor does not prevent an aggregate from being an implicit-lifetime class.

Proposed resolution (approved by CWG 2022-11-09):

Change in 11.2 [class.prop] paragraph 9 as follows:

A class S is an implicit-lifetime class if