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In D56411#1410598 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D56411#1410598>, @yaxunl wrote:

> In D56411#1410153 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D56411#1410153>, @rjmccall wrote:
>
> > In D56411#1406212 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D56411#1406212>, @yaxunl wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to fix the validation issue only and leave the overload 
> > > resolution issue for future.
> >
> >
> > As I understand it, the "validation issue" is just that you'd like a 
> > diagnostic to be emitted when resolving the template argument in order to 
> > force SFINAE to pick a different template.  I think that's actually just 
> > the overload-resolution issue.
>
>
> Currently there are two host-ness related issues about function type template 
> arguments:
>
> 1. when there are two or more candidates for the template argument, clang 
> goes through host-ness based overloading resolution, which does not work 
> properly
> 2. when there is only one candidate for the template argument, clang does not 
> go through overloading resolution, therefore the first issue does not show 
> up. However, clang still checks host-ness of template argument. As discussed 
> before, clang should not check host-ness in non-evaluation or 
> constant-evaluation context. Instead, clang should check host-ness in 
> template instantiation.
>
>   I refer the first issue as host-ness overloading resolution issue and the 
> second issue as host-ness validation issue. They are related but separate.
>
>   The first issue only happens when host-ness based overloading resolution is 
> used. For applications which can be compiled with nvcc, this cannot happen, 
> therefore it is less common and less urgent.
>
>   The second issue can happen to applications which can be compiled with 
> nvcc, therefore is more imminent.
>
>   Fixing the second issue is relatively straightforward. It does not need to 
> introduce new AST types for host-ness. Also it is orthogonal to fixing the 
> first issue.


Okay, I understand now.  LGTM.


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