On 7/24/25 5:20 PM, Patrick Palka wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2025, Jason Merrill wrote:

On 7/23/25 8:29 PM, Patrick Palka wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2025, Jason Merrill wrote:

On 7/23/25 3:46 PM, Patrick Palka wrote:
As a follow-up to r16-2448-g7590c14b53a762, this patch attempts to teach
build_min_non_dep_op_overload how to rebuild all rewritten comparison
operators, not just != -> == ones, so that we don't incorrectly repeat
the unqualified name lookup at instantiation time.

Talking about mangling earlier made me wonder how we were handling
non-dependent operator expressions, and indeed it seems we get it wrong
since
GCC 6:

struct A { };
A operator+(A,A);
template <class T>
void f(decltype(T(),A()+A())) { }
int main()
{
    f<int>(A()); // oops, mangles as operator+(A(),A()) instead of A()+A()
}

while clang and EDG corretly use the latter mangling.

With the current code I would think we could fix this by handling
CALL_EXPR_OPERATOR_SYNTAX in mangle.cc, but your patch (and indeed the
earlier
one) would further obscure the original syntax.

Does this mean it's also incorrect to mangle the ordinary non-dependent f(0)
call in:

      template<class T> void f(T);

      template<class T> decltype(T(),f(0)) g();

      int main() {
        g<int>();
      }

as f<int>(0) i.e. with an explicit template argument list even though it was
written without one?  Clang mangles it as f<int>(0) too, not sure about EDG.
This changed in GCC 12 with the non-dependent overload set pruning
optimization.

And does this have any declaration matching implications?  Say for

      struct A { };

      template<class T> int operator+(A,T);
      template<class T> decltype(T(),A()+A()) f();

      A operator+(A,A);
      template<class T> decltype(T(),A()+A()) f();

      int main() {
        f<int>();
      }

should we still reject the f<int>() call as ambiguous, or treat the second
declaration as a redeclaration (since they have the same mangling?)  This
seems
related to CWG1321 but for non-dependent calls.

Indeed.  In general there's a tension between wanting to mangle the expression
as written and wanting to mangle the results of name binding;
neither answer is completely correct, since both affect the ODR, but leaning
toward the latter seems less likely to produce harmful collisions.  See also
https://github.com/itanium-cxx-abi/cxx-abi/issues/38 for instance.

I'm not sure how or if we want to address the mangling concern.
With this patch we'll now at least our non-dependent operator
expression mangling will be consistent :)

I suppose open and suspend a PR.

Perhaps -fabi-version should control this transformation?  Maybe only if
cp_unevaluated_operand?

Depending on -fabi-version seems kinda overkill to me -- this would only
change the mangling of (a likely tiny fraction of) C++20 code support
for which is still considered experimental, and at the same time this
change fixes a much more likely to encounter name lookup bug.  (Indeed
the inadvertent GCC 6/12 mangling changes were never reported upstream
yet PR121179 was!)  And -fabi-version usually controls only mangling,
whereas here it'd control mangling and semantics (name lookup), which
sounds unprecedented/undesirable?

Fair enough, the patch is OK.

Jason

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