Re: auto-generated move assignment and base or member with a by-value assignment

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Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:40:49 -0800 (PST)
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Am 28.02.2014 18:07, schrieb Krzysztof Czai??ski:

I think this became clear to me now. I will now try to verify my
understanding with some statements about this example:

struct B // movable only
{
  B() = default;
  B( B const& ) = delete;
  B( B&& ) = default;
  B& operator=( B ) {}
};

- B has a copy assignment operator.


Yes, it has an explicitly declared and user-provided copy assignment operator (see below for one further remark to the definition).

- B has no move assignment operator.


Correct, there is no implicitly nor an explicitly declared move-assignment operator (The otherwise applicable implicit declaration is suppressed because of the existence of the user-declared copy-constructor, move-constructor, and copy-assignment operators [each of them would have been an exclusion argument]).

- B is not copy assignable.


Yes, I would say that it does neither satisfy the CopyAssignable requirements nor should std::is_copy_assignable<B>::value evaluate to true.

- B is move assignable.


Assuming you would fix the return statement, yes, this type would satisfy the MoveAssignable requirements and std::is_move_assignable<B>::value would evaluate to true (already without the fix, because the latter is based on an unevaluated expression test).

- B is trivially copyable.


No, because you have failed to satisfy:

"has no non-trivial copy assignment operators"

since the type has one non-trivial copy-assignment operator (because it is user-provided).

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Kr??gler

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