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Re: [SG16] Revised and repaired P1949R2 - C++ Identifier Syntax using Unicode Standard Annex 31

From: Hubert Tong <hubert.reinterpretcast_at_[hidden]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:52:31 -0500
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 12:56 PM Corentin Jabot <corentinjabot_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 17:08 Hubert Tong via SG16 <sg16_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
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>> - Was EWG informed that the proposal can be understood as introducing new
>>> core language undefined behaviour for existing programs with identifiers in
>>> NFC form where the concatenation is not in NFC form ([cpp.concat])? I note
>>> that R1 of the paper was not clear on that point and R2 does not identify
>>> it as a consideration.
>>>
>>> I don't recall discussing this in EWG, but I believe it was discussed at
>>> some point and the conclusion was that an identifier not in NFC form
>>> resulting from such concatenation was ill-formed. Can you elaborate as to
>>> how the UB manifests?
>>>
>> The typical manifestation of the UB in cpp.concat that does not produce a
>> diagnostic for the case in question is that the concatenation may instead
>> leave the operand tokens behind. That is, the ill-formed result is not
>> required to manifest.
>>
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> Could we modify the wording so that identifiers not nfc after
> pre-processing are ill-formed?
>
I think so. Explicit wording in cpp.concat should work.


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Received on 2020-02-24 13:55:30