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CWG2755 [expr.const] P2738R1 applied bad wording #349

Closed jensmaurer closed 10 months ago

jensmaurer commented 1 year ago

Full name of submitter (unless configured in github; will be published with the issue): Jens Maurer

Reference (section label): expr.const

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Issue description:

P2738R1 constexpr cast from void*: towards constexpr type-erasure

The wording is wrong; "T" is a pointer type, thus requiring that "P" points to an object of type similar to T is mixing pointer levels. We should be talking about "pointer to T" instead.

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jensmaurer commented 1 year ago

CWG2755