[cfe-commits] [PATCH] PR8800 Don't require an implicit conversion to reference-to-class to have a complete class type

[Richard Smith]

On Wed, July 13, 2011 02:38, Douglas Gregor wrote:
> On Jul 12, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Richard Smith wrote:
>> The attached patch fixes PR8800. When building a conversion to A& via a
>>  class' operator A&(), we were requiring A to be complete. There seems
>> to be no normative rule in the standard which requires this, but C++11
>> FDIS
>> [basic.def.odr]p4 bullet 6 says "A class type T must be complete if
>> [...]
>> an expression [...] is converted to type pointer to T or reference to T
>> using an implicit conversion" within a note.
>
> That bullet is rather strange. I think it really means to talk about
> derived-to-base or base-to-derived conversions, but it's written more
> generally than that. It's non-normative, so we can ignore it.

Great, I've added this note to the list of FDIS issues.

>> Assuming that note is incorrect, is this patch OK to check in?
>
> Yes, please!

r135101. Thanks!