P1839 R6 Accessing object representations

[wg21bot]

P1839R0 Accessing Object Representations (Krystian Stasiowski)

[wg21bot]

P1839R1 Accessing Object Representations (Krystian Stasiowski)

[jensmaurer]

Retargeted to EWG-I as advised by CWG chair.

[theres-waldo]

EWG-I in Belfast

Should accessing the object representation be defined behaviour? Unanimous consent

Forward P1839 as presented to EWG, recommending that this be a Core issue? Unanimous consent

[davidstone]

It should be possible to access the entire object representation through a pointer to a char-like type as a DR

SF | F | N | A | SA 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0

Approved by EWG.

Please note that the wording in the poll reflected my misremembering of the correct term for types with special aliasing exemptions. It looks as though there is no common term, the standard always explicitly calls out char, unsigned char, and std::byte. This was the understanding of the room of what that term meant.

[wg21bot]

P1839R2 Accessing Object Representations (Krystian Stasiowski)

[jensmaurer]

Paper taken over by Timur Doumler.

[wg21bot]

P1839R3 Accessing Object Representations (Krystian Stasiowski, Timur Doumler)

[wg21bot]

P1839R4 Accessing Object Representations (Krystian Stasiowski, Timur Doumler)

[jensmaurer]

CWG telecon 2022-04-22: Partially reviewed; needs updates.

[jensmaurer]

CWG telecon 2022-05-06: Reviewed; needs updates.

[wg21bot]

P1839R5 Accessing object representations (Timur Doumler, Krystian Stasiowski)

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P1839R6 Accessing object representations (Brian Bi, Krystian Stasiowski, Timur Doumler)

[jensmaurer]

CWG 2024-11-18 in Wroclaw: Reviewed; needs updates.

[jensmaurer]

CWG 2024-11-21 in Wroclaw: Reviewed; needs updates.