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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - clang accepts an abstract class in function return type"
   href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47843">47843</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>clang accepts an abstract class in function return type
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>C++
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>tangyixuan@mail.dlut.edu.cn
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>blitzrakete@gmail.com, dgregor@apple.com, erik.pilkington@gmail.com, llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org, richard-llvm@metafoo.co.uk
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        <pre>Hi, the following code maybe is ill-formed, since the abstract class shall not
be used as a function return type in most cases. Clang accepts it without error
diagnostics.

$ cat s.cpp

template<typename T>
struct S{};

struct A
{
  virtual void func() = 0;
};

int main()
{
  S<A(int)> s;
}

$ clang++ -c s.cpp
<success>

$ g++ -c s.cpp

s.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
s.cpp:11:5: error: invalid abstract return type ‘A’
   23 |   S<A(int)> s;
      |     ^
s.cpp:4:8: note:   because the following virtual functions are pure within ‘A’:
   16 | struct A
      |        ^
s.cpp:6:16: note:     ‘virtual void A::f()’
   18 |   virtual void f() = 0;
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