https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113388
Bug ID: 113388 Summary: Calling explicit object member function without object argument inside a function that is not an implicit object member function Product: gcc Version: 14.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: cooky.ykooc922 at gmail dot com Target Milestone: --- According to https://eel.is/c++draft/over.call.func#3: In unqualified function calls, the function is named by a primary-expression. The function declarations found by name lookup ([basic.lookup]) constitute the set of candidate functions. Because of the rules for name lookup, the set of candidate functions consists either entirely of non-member functions or entirely of member functions of some class T. In the former case or if the primary-expression is the address of an overload set, the argument list is the same as the expression-list in the call. Otherwise, the argument list is the expression-list in the call augmented by the addition of an implied object argument as in a qualified function call. If the current class is, or is derived from, T, and the keyword this ([expr.prim.this]) refers to it, then the implied object argument is (*this). Otherwise, a contrived object of type T becomes the implied object argument; if overload resolution selects a non-static member function, the call is ill-formed. In other words, the code snippet below must produce an error because a call to 'bar()' inside the function 'foo', 'baz', or any function which is not an implicit object member function itself, is ill-formed without the object argument. There is no error inside implicit object member function 'qux' because the implied object argument is '*this' unlike other explicit object member functions. struct A { void bar(this A) {} static void foo() { // not ok: this should be error // because the overload resolution // picked a non-static member function // without an object argument bar(); // ok [error as expected]: // bar(A{}); // ok [converted to function pointer]: (&A::bar)(A{}); // ok [called with an object argument]: A{}.bar(); } void baz(this A self) { // ok self.bar(); // ok [error as expected] // self.bar(self); // ok [error as expected] // bar(A{}); // not ok: this should be error // because the overload resolution // picked a non-static function // without an object argument // even inside the scope of the // explicit object member function bar(); // ok A{}.bar(); } void qux() { // ok bar(); // ok [error as expected] // bar(*this); } }; godbolt link with -std=c++23: https://godbolt.org/z/89Msa7Gfj