Date: 2015-10-15.00:00:00

[Moved to DR at the October, 2015 meeting.]

Date: 2015-05-15.00:00:00

Proposed resolution (May, 2015):

Change 14.5 [except.spec] paragraph 2 as follows:

An exception-specification shall appear only on within a lambda-declarator or within a function declarator for a function type, pointer to function type, reference to function type, or pointer to member function type that is the top-level type of a declaration or definition, or on such a type appearing as a parameter or return type in a function declarator. An exception-specification shall not appear in a typedef declaration or alias-declaration. of a function, variable, or non-static data member. It shall appear only on the top-level declarator, on the declarator of one of its parameter-declarations (if any), or on its return type. [Example:...

Date: 2022-02-18.07:47:23

Suggested resolution:

Change 14.5 [except.spec] paragraph 2 as follows:

An exception-specification shall appear only on a function declarator for a function type, pointer to function type, reference to function type, or pointer to member function type that is the top-level type of a declaration or definition of a function, variable, or non-static data member, or on such a type appearing as a parameter or return type in such a function declarator. An exception-specification shall not appear in a typedef declaration or alias-declaration. [Example:...

See also issues 2010, 1995, 1946, and 1798.

Date: 2022-02-18.07:47:23

The declarations in which an exception-specification may appear is not completely clear from the current wording of 14.5 [except.spec] paragraph 2.