It seems we've just discovered the reason why the pre-CWG2801 wording was
the way it was. Sigh.

We should probably

   - restore the old wording,
   - then change the part that says "cv1 shall be the same cv-qualification
   as, or greater cv-qualification than, cv2" to "cv1 T1 shall be
   reference-compatible with cv2 T2". I think that fixes the original issue.
   - then, add a note so that in a few years we don't forget why this
   wording is here.


On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM Ell via Std-Discussion <
std-discussion_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> AFAICT, after the changes from CWG 2801, none of the bullets in
> [dcl.init.ref]/5 allow initializing a (const/rv) reference from a
> similarly-typed bit field. I'm pretty sure that wasn't intended.
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