On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 07:22:37PM +0300, Vladimir Grigoriev via Std-Discussion wrote:
> In my opinion there is some inconsistence in the function overload resolution when a function parameter has a referenced array type.
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> Let assume that we have two functions
>  
> void f( const ( &a )[] );
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> and
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> void f( const ( &a )[2] );
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> If to write
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> f( { 1, 2 } );
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> then the second function will be selected.
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> However if to write
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> int a[2];
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> and then
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> f( a );
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> then the compiler will issue an error relative to an ambiguity.

Which compiler? MSVC? Maybe a compiler bug?

gcc accepts this: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/5qq4G6hcW

This is discussed in
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p0388r4.html .


Christof

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