Re: c++/2831

[lerdsuwa@gcc.gnu.org]

The following reply was made to PR c++/2831; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: lerdsuwa@gcc.gnu.org
To: at@sourceware.cygnus.com, fspam@sourceware.cygnus.com,
  gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, nobody@gcc.gnu.org
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Subject: Re: c++/2831
Date: 22 May 2001 14:38:58 -0000

 Synopsis: operator ?: requires storage for initialized static member constants
 
 State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 State-Changed-By: lerdsuwa
 State-Changed-When: Tue May 22 07:38:58 2001
 State-Changed-Why:
     Not a bug.  The definition of static data member is 
     required in both situations, flags and aflags assignments.
     However, a standard-compliant does not have to verify this
     (as can be seen from the aflag assignment) to allow
     optimization.  See section 9.4.2 para 4-5 of the standard:
     
     4 If a static data member is of const integral or const
       enumeration type, its declaration in the class definition
       can specify a constant-initializer which shall be an
       integral constant expression (5.19).  In that case,
       the member can appear in integral constant expressions
       within its scope.  The member shall still be defined in
       a namespace scope if it is used in the program and the
       namespace scope definition shall not contain an initializer.
     5 There shall be exactly one definition of a static data
       member that is used in a program; no diagnostic is
       required; see 3.2. ...
 
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