3016. optional and over-aligned types

Section: 22.5.3 [optional.optional] Status: NAD Submitter: Tim Song Opened: 2017-09-04 Last modified: 2020-09-06

Priority: 3

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Discussion:

LWG issue 2555 added "It is implementation-defined whether over-aligned types are supported (C++14 §3.11)." to the specification of std::experimental::optional in LFTS, however that issue wasn't moved until optional had already been merged to the IS working paper, so it isn't present in the specification of std::optional. Should the same rule be added for std::optional as well?

[2017-11 Albuquerque Wednesday night issues processing]

Priority set to 3; Casey to provide rationale for closing as NAD.

2018-11 Closed as NAD with the adoption of P0899R1

Proposed resolution:

This wording is relative to N4687.

1. Edit 22.5.3 [optional.optional] p1 as indicated:

   […] The contained value shall be allocated in a region of the optional<T> storage suitably aligned for the type T. It is implementation-defined whether over-aligned types are supported (6.7.6 [basic.align]). When an object of type optional<T> is contextually converted to bool, the conversion returns true if the object contains a value; otherwise the conversion returns false.