[cfe-dev] _Atomic qualified types and template argument deduction

[Richard Smith via cfe-dev]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Hubert Tong via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> In C11, the lvalue conversions replace atomic types with the unqualified,
> non-atomic version. This is similar to the array-to-pointer and
> function-to-pointer conversions in C++.
>
> I believe that this parallel should be reflected in template argument
> deduction (specifically, in the place in [temp.deduct.call] where
> array-to-pointer and function-to-pointer conversion is mentioned).
>
> That is, I believe the following should compile successfully (Clang
> doesn't do so at this time):
> extern _Atomic const int x;
> template <typename T> struct C { typedef T type; };
> template <typename T> C<T> foo(T);
> extern decltype(foo(x))::type chk;
> extern int chk;
>
> Comments welcome.
>

I agree. The intent of [temp.deduct.call]p2 and p3 seems to be that if P is
not a reference, then A is replaced by the type obtained by converting A to
a prvalue (and dropping qualifiers). Whether we view _Atomic as a funny
kind of qualifier or as a funny kind of modifier that decays to its
underlying type, we should deduce T = int in your above example.
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