Re: This doesn't compile is it a bug or a mistake on my part.

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Kr=FCgler?= <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com>
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Date:
Sun, 29 Sep 2013 19:03:51 -0700 (PDT)
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Am 29.09.2013 10:01, schrieb monamimani@googlemail.com:

I get errors when compiling this simple code using top of tree clang
(28-Sept-2013) and if I remove the noexcept I don't get the error:

#include<vector>
#include<string>
class Foo
{
public:

protected:
     Foo(Foo&&) noexcept = default;
     Foo& operator=(Foo&&) noexcept = default;

     Foo()
     {
     }

private:

     std::vector<std::string> vectorFoo_;
};

This is the errors I get, I understand it is in the instantiation of
the exception specification, but I doubt the std::string is not
nothrow move constructible,.. the first error make me think there is
a bug.


It is not a bug of the library you are testing. You are right, that
std::string is nothrow move constructible, see

basic_string(basic_string&& str) noexcept;

but for std::vector this guarantee is not given, see

vector(vector&&);

I agree that the latter is unfortunate and this could be submitted as
a library issue. Nonetheless fixing that would not resolve you problem
in regard to the move assignment operations, because these functions
have a conditional situation (depending on the allocator's
propagate_on_container_move_assignment value). Furthermore
std::string's nothrow guarantee of move-assignment will presumably be
changed, see

http://cplusplus.github.io/LWG/lwg-active.html#2063

HTH & Greetings from Bremen

Daniel Kr?gler

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