On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Nathan Sidwell <nat...@acm.org> wrote: > PR 66443 concerns C++14 DR1611. It is now permitted to use the base-ctor of > an abstract class whos complete ctor is deleted because of a virtual base > issue. Specifically, given > > class A { > A (int); > // no default ctor in C++14 > }; > > class B : virtual A { > virtual void Foo () = 0; // abstract > // B::B deleted because there's no A::A()
But DR 1658 says that B::B is *not* deleted (because A is not a potentially constructed subobject). Implementing that might be simpler than trying to have a deleted complete and non-deleted base constructor variant. Jason