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[SG10] New issue: auto(x) should have a feature-testing macro

From: Barry Revzin <barry.revzin_at_[hidden]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 13:27:36 -0600
Do you have an example of code that would benefit from such detection?

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From: William M. (Mike) Miller <wmm_at_[hidden]>
Date: Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 1:25 PM
Subject: Fwd: New issue: auto(x) should have a feature-testing macro
To: Barry Revzin <barry.revzin_at_[hidden]>
Cc: Zhihao Yuan <zy_at_[hidden]>, <arthur.j.odwyer_at_[hidden]>


This suggestion should be decided by SG10 rather than being
handled as a core language issue, so I'm forwarding it to the
SG10 chair for consideration. Thanks.


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Subject: New issue: auto(x) should have a feature-testing macro
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 02:48:12 +0000
From: Zhihao Yuan <zy_at_[hidden]>
Reply-To: Zhihao Yuan <zy_at_[hidden]>
To: William M. \(Mike\) Miller <wmm_at_[hidden]>
CC: 'Arthur O'Dwyer' <arthur.j.odwyer_at_[hidden]>

It's hard to detect whether it is legal to
do auto(expr) after adopting P0849R8;
A feature testing macro would help.

There was no __cpp_auto (unlike
__cpp_decltype_auto), but the direction
of evolving auto(x) is probably not
necessarily tied to `auto` in a
declaration.

Proposed resolution:

This wording is relative to N4901.

Add an entry to [tab:cpp.predefined.ft]

Table 21: Feature-test macros

| Macro name | Value |
| -------- | ------- || <ins>__cpp_auto_cast</ins> | 202110L |

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Received on 2022-01-04 13:27:50