条件运算符的值类别

Question

考虑以下代码：

int x;
int& f() {
  return x ? x : throw 0;
}

使用 gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 我得到以下编译错误：

cannot bind non-const lvalue reference of type ‘int&’ to an rvalue of type ‘int’

请注意，这在 clang 中编译得很好。这是（我认为是）标准中的相关声明：

N4659 [8.16.2.1] (Conditional Operator):
The second or the third operand (but not both) is a (possibly parenthesized) throw-expression (8.17); the result is of the type and value category of the other.

据我了解，x是一个左值，所以在我看来clang是对的。我错了吗？

如果我不得不猜测的话，会发生左值到右值的转换，因为条件表达式中的两个表达式不具有相同的类型，但是因为第二个是抛出，所以应该抢占此转换。我不熟悉提交错误报告，但也许这会是一个更好的论坛。

以下是一些（可能）更有用的关于条件运算符的问题：
Why does this function return an lvalue reference given rvalue arguments?
Error: lvalue required in this simple C code? (Ternary with assignment?)

Answer 1

clang 在这里是正确的，旧的行为是无条件地将值转换为 prvalue，看起来 gcc 仍在实现。

这是 DR 1560 which was fixed by the resolution of DR 1550 的主题。 DR 1560 说：

A glvalue appearing as one operand of a conditional-expression in which the other operand is a throw-expression is converted to a prvalue, regardless of how the conditional-expression is used:

If either the second or the third operand has type void, then the lvalue-to-rvalue (7.1 [conv.lval]), array-to-pointer (7.2 [conv.array]), and function-to-pointer (7.3 [conv.func]) standard conversions are performed on the second and third operands, and one of the following shall hold:

The second or the third operand (but not both) is a throw-expression (18.1 [except.throw]); the result is of the type of the other and is a prvalue.

这似乎是无端的和令人惊讶的。

和 DR 1550 将 [expr.cond] 中的措辞更改为我们现在的措辞：

The second or the third operand (but not both) is a (possibly parenthesized) throw-expression; the result is of the type and value category of the other. The conditional-expression is a bit-field if that operand is a bit-field.

所以看起来 gcc 正在实现旧行为，而 clang 正在实现 DR。

这是patch that applied DR 1560 to clang。它添加了以下测试：

namespace DR1560 { // dr1560: 3.5
  void f(bool b, int n) {
    (b ? throw 0 : n) = (b ? n : throw 0) = 0;
  }
  class X { X(const X&); };
  const X &get();
  const X &x = true ? get() : throw 0;
}

on godbolt we can see this fails for gcc 由于：

error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment
4 |     (b ? throw 0 : n) = (b ? n : throw 0) = 0;
  |

我们有一个 gcc bug report for a very similar issue，它有以下简化的测试用例：

I wanted to bump this bug and supply a simpler test-case:

void blah(int&) {}

int main() {
    int i{};
    blah(true ? i : throw);
}

result with gcc 6.0:

prog.cc: In function 'int main()':
prog.cc:6:15: error: invalid initialization of non-const reference of type 'int&' from an rvalue of type 'int'
     blah(true ? i : throw 0);
          ~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~

条件运算符的值类别

Value category of conditional operator

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