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<P><EM>This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21
  Core Issues List revision 118b.
  See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official
  list.</EM></P>
<P>2025-09-28</P>
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<A NAME="2113"></A><H4>2113.
  
Incompete specification of types for declarators
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<B>Section: </B>9.3.4&#160; [<A href="https://wg21.link/dcl.meaning">dcl.meaning</A>]
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 <B>Status: </B>CD4
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 <B>Submitter: </B>Richard Smith
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 <B>Date: </B>2015-04-08<BR>


<P>[Adopted at the February, 2016 meeting.]</P>



<P>According to 9.3.4 [<A href="https://wg21.link/dcl.meaning">dcl.meaning</A>]</P>

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A <TT>static</TT>, <TT>thread_local</TT>, <TT>extern</TT>, <TT>register</TT>, <TT>mutable</TT>, <TT>friend</TT>,
<TT>inline</TT>, <TT>virtual</TT>, or <TT>typedef</TT>
specifier applies directly to each <I>declarator-id</I> in
an <I>init-declarator-list</I>; the type specified for
each <I>declarator-id</I> depends on both
the <I>decl-specifier-seq</I> and its <I>declarator</I>.

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<P>This list is missing <TT>constexpr</TT> and
<TT>explicit</TT>.  Also, this should apply, but doesn't, to
<I>member-declarator-list</I>s.</P>

<P><B>Proposed resolution (September, 2015):</B></P>

<P>Change 9.3.4 [<A href="https://wg21.link/dcl.meaning#2">dcl.meaning</A>] paragraph 2 as follows:</P>

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A <TT>static</TT>, <TT>thread_local</TT>, <TT>extern</TT>, <TT>register</TT>,
<TT>mutable</TT>, <TT>friend</TT>, <TT>inline</TT>, <TT>virtual</TT>,
<INS><TT>constexpr</TT>, <TT>explicit</TT>,</INS> or <TT>typedef</TT>
specifier applies directly to each <I>declarator-id</I> in
an <I>init-declarator-list</I> <INS>or <I>member-declarator-list</I></INS>;
the type specified for each <I>declarator-id</I> depends on both
the <I>decl-specifier-seq</I> and its <I>declarator</I>.

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