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2026-08-20
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148. POD classes and pointers to members
Section: Clause 11 [
] Status: TC1 Submitter: Nathan Sidwell Date: 31 Jul 1999 6.9 [
] paragraph 10 defines pointer to member types to be scalar types. It also defines scalar types to be one of the POD types.
Clause 11 [
] paragraph 4 defines a POD struct as an aggregate class with no non-static data members of type pointer to member.
It seems contradictory that a type can be POD, yet a class containing that type is non-POD.
Suggested resolution: Alter Clause 11 [
] paragraph 4 to allow pointer to member objects as non-static data members of POD class.
Proposed resolution (10/00):
In Clause 11 [
] paragraph 4, remove all occurrences of "pointer to member."