On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> Joseph> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >> 6.3 is about conversions, and the first paragraph starts "several
> >> operators convert ...". Based on this, and other such phrases in the
> >> text, I think the entire section applies to operators.
>
> Joseph> 6.3.2.1 paragraphs 2 and 3 are phrased in terms of operators
> Joseph> *preventing* conversion and certain conversions happening unless
> Joseph> there is an operator to prevent them.
>
> Wow, I really don't read it that way at all. Looking at it yet again,
> now, I can't even really make it come out that way.
"Except when it is the operand of [...] an lvalue [...] is converted
[...]" seems straightforward enough to me. Thus, as another example
volatile int *p;
void f(void) { *p; }
dereferences the pointer when f is called (the lvalue *p is converted to
an rvalue in the expression statement, without *p being an operand of an
operator; if it were an operand of unary '&', that would stop the
conversion).
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Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com
