Document number:   J16/03-0055 = WG21 N1472
Date:  25 April, 2003
Project:  Programming Language C++
Reference:  ISO/IEC IS 14882:1998(E)
Reply to:  J. Stephen Adamczyk
 jsa@edg.com


C++ Standard Core Language Active Issues, Revision 26

Committee Version


This document contains the C++ core language issues on which the Committee (J16 + WG21) has not yet acted, that is, issues issues with status "Ready," "Review," "Drafting," and "Open."

This document is part of a group of related documents that together describe the issues that have been raised regarding the C++ Standard. The other documents in the group are:

The purpose of these documents is to record the disposition of issues which have come before the Core Language Working Group of the ANSI (J16) and ISO (WG21) C++ Standard Committee.

Issues represent potential defects in the ISO/IEC IS 14882:1998(E) document; they are not necessarily formal ISO Defect Reports (DRs). While some issues will eventually be elevated to DR status, others will be disposed of in other ways. (See Issue Status below.)

This set of documents exists in two slightly different versions. The Committee Version (this version) is the master version and should be made available only to committee members. The Public Version is extracted from the Committee Version by removal of sensitive and/or unnecessary information, such as drafting assignments, reflector message numbers, and the like.

Committee members with the HTML version of the IS may wish to place the issues list documents in the same directory; references to the IS in the issues can then be explored by hyperlink.

The most current public version of this document can be found at http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21. Requests for further information about these documents should include the document number, reference ISO/IEC 14882:1998(E), and be submitted to the Information Technology Information Council (ITI), 1250 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA.

Information regarding how to obtain a copy of the C++ Standard, join the Standard Committee, or submit an issue can be found in the C++ FAQ at http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html . Public discussion of the C++ Standard and related issues occurs on newsgroup comp.std.c++.


Revision History

Issue status

Issues progress through various statuses as the Core Language Working Group and, ultimately, the full J16 and WG21 committees deliberate and act. For ease of reference, issues are grouped in these documents by their status. Issues have one of the following statuses:

Open: The issue is new or the working group has not yet formed an opinion on the issue. If a Suggested Resolution is given, it reflects the opinion of the issue's submitter, not necessarily that of the working group or the Committee as a whole.

Drafting: Informal consensus has been reached in the working group and is described in rough terms in a Tentative Resolution, although precise wording for the change is not yet available.

Review: Exact wording of a Proposed Resolution is now available for an issue on which the working group previously reached informal consensus.

Ready: The working group has reached consensus that the issue is a defect in the Standard, the Proposed Resolution is correct, and the issue is ready to forward to the full Committee for ratification as a proposed defect report.

DR: The