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\rSec0[over]{Overloading}%
\indextext{overloading|(}

%gram: \rSec1[gram.over]{Overloading}
%gram:

\pnum
\indextext{declaration!overloaded}%
\indextext{overloaded function|see{overloading}}%
\indextext{function, overloaded|see{overloading}}%
When two or more different declarations are specified for a single name
in the same scope, that name is said to be
\grammarterm{overloaded}.
By extension, two declarations in the same scope that declare the same name
but with different types are called
\term{overloaded declarations}.
Only function and function template
declarations can be overloaded; variable and type declarations
cannot be overloaded.

\pnum
When an overloaded function name is used in a call, which overloaded function
declaration is being referenced is determined by comparing the types
of the arguments at the point of use with the types of the parameters
in the overloaded declarations that are visible at the point of use.
This function selection process is called
\term{overload resolution}
and
is defined in~\ref{over.match}.
\enterexample

\indextext{overloading!example of}%
\begin{codeblock}
double abs(double);
int abs(int);

abs(1);             // calls \tcode{abs(int);}
abs(1.0);           // calls \tcode{abs(double);}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\rSec1[over.load]{Overloadable declarations}
\indextext{overloading!declarations}%

\pnum
\indextext{overloading!prohibited}%
Not all function declarations can be overloaded.
Those that cannot be
overloaded are specified here.
A program is ill-formed if it contains
two such non-overloadable declarations in the same scope.
\enternote
This restriction applies to explicit declarations in a scope, and between
such declarations and
declarations made through a
\grammarterm{using-declaration}~(\ref{namespace.udecl}).
It does not apply to sets of functions fabricated as a result of
name lookup (e.g., because of
\grammarterm{using-directive}{s})
or overload resolution
(e.g., for operator functions).
\exitnote

\pnum
Certain function declarations cannot be overloaded:

\begin{itemize}
\item
\indextext{return~type!overloading~and}%
Function declarations that differ only in the return type cannot be
overloaded.
\item
\indextext{\idxcode{static}!overloading~and}%
Member function declarations with the same name and the same
\grammarterm{parameter-type-list} cannot be overloaded if any of them is a
\tcode{static}
member function declaration~(\ref{class.static}).
Likewise, member function template declarations with the same name,
the same \grammarterm{parameter-type-list}, and the same template parameter lists cannot be
overloaded if any of them is a
\tcode{static}
member function template declaration.
The types of the implicit object parameters constructed for the member
functions for the purpose of overload resolution~(\ref{over.match.funcs})
are not considered when comparing parameter-type-lists for enforcement of
this rule.
In contrast, if there is no
\tcode{static}
member function declaration among a set of member function
declarations with the same name and the same parameter-type-list, then
these member function declarations can be overloaded if they differ in
the type of their implicit object parameter.
\enterexample
the following illustrates this distinction:

\begin{codeblock}
class X {
  static void f();
  void f();                     // ill-formed
  void f() const;               // ill-formed
  void f() const volatile;      // ill-formed
  void g();
  void g() const;               // OK: no static \tcode{g}
  void g() const volatile;      // OK: no static \tcode{g}
};
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\item Member function declarations with the same name and the same
\grammarterm{parameter-type-list} as well as member function template
declarations with the same name, the same \grammarterm{parameter-type-list}, and
the same template parameter lists cannot be overloaded if any of them, but not
all, have a \grammarterm{ref-qualifier}~(\ref{dcl.fct}). \enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
class Y {
  void h() &;
  void h() const &;             // OK
  void h() &&;                  // OK, all declarations have a ref-qualifier
  void i() &;
  void i() const;               // ill-formed, prior declaration of \tcode{i}
                                // has a ref-qualifier
};
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\end{itemize}

\pnum
\indextext{equivalent~parameter~declarations}%
\indextext{equivalent~parameter~declarations!overloading~and}%
\enternote
As specified in~\ref{dcl.fct},
function declarations that have equivalent parameter declarations declare
the same function and therefore cannot
be overloaded:

\begin{itemize}
\item
\indextext{\idxcode{typedef}!overloading~and}%
Parameter declarations that differ only in the use of equivalent typedef
``types'' are equivalent.
A
\tcode{typedef}
is not a separate type, but only a synonym for another type~(\ref{dcl.typedef}).
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
typedef int Int;

void f(int i);
void f(Int i);                  // OK: redeclaration of \tcode{f(int)}
void f(int i) @\tcode{\{ /* ... */ \}}@
void f(Int i) @\tcode{\{ /* ... */ \}}@    // error: redefinition of \tcode{f(int)}

\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\indextext{\idxcode{enum}!overloading~and}%
Enumerations, on the other hand, are distinct types and can be used to
distinguish
overloaded function declarations.
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
enum E { a };

void f(int i) @\tcode{\{ /* ... */ \}}@
void f(E i)   @\tcode{\{ /* ... */ \}}@
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\item
\indextext{array!overloading~and pointer~versus}%
Parameter declarations that differ only in a pointer
\tcode{*}
versus an array
\tcode{[]}
are equivalent.
That is, the array declaration is adjusted to become a pointer
declaration~(\ref{dcl.fct}).
Only the second and subsequent array dimensions are significant in
parameter types~(\ref{dcl.array}).
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
int f(char*);
int f(char[]);                  // same as \tcode{f(char*);}
int f(char[7]);                 // same as \tcode{f(char*);}
int f(char[9]);                 // same as \tcode{f(char*);}

int g(char(*)[10]);
int g(char[5][10]);             // same as \tcode{g(char(*)[10]);}
int g(char[7][10]);             // same as \tcode{g(char(*)[10]);}
int g(char(*)[20]);             // different from \tcode{g(char(*)[10]);}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\item
Parameter declarations that differ only in that one is a function type
and the other is a pointer to the same function type are equivalent.
That is, the function type is adjusted to become a pointer to function type~(\ref{dcl.fct}).
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
void h(int());
void h(int (*)());              // redeclaration of \tcode{h(int())}
void h(int x()) { }             // definition of \tcode{h(int())}
void h(int (*x)()) { }          // ill-formed: redefinition of \tcode{h(int())}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\item
\indextext{\idxcode{const}!overloading~and}%
\indextext{\idxcode{volatile}!overloading~and}%
Parameter declarations that differ only in the presence or absence of
\tcode{const}
and/or
\tcode{volatile}
are equivalent.
That is, the
\tcode{const}
and
\tcode{volatile}
type-specifiers for
each parameter type are ignored when determining which function is being
declared,
defined, or called.
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
typedef const int cInt;

int f (int);
int f (const int);              // redeclaration of \tcode{f(int)}
int f (int) @\tcode{\{ /* ... */ \}}@      // definition of \tcode{f(int)}
int f (cInt) @\tcode{\{ /* ... */ \}}@     // error: redefinition of \tcode{f(int)}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

Only the
\tcode{const}
and
\tcode{volatile}
type-specifiers at the outermost level of the
parameter type specification are ignored in this fashion;
\tcode{const}
and
\tcode{volatile}
type-specifiers buried within a parameter type specification are significant
and can be used to distinguish overloaded function
declarations.\footnote{When a parameter type includes a function type,
such as in the case of a parameter type that is a pointer to function, the
\tcode{const}
and
\tcode{volatile}
type-specifiers at the outermost level of the parameter type
specifications for the inner function type are also ignored.}
In particular, for any type
\tcode{T},
``pointer to
\tcode{T},''
``pointer to
\tcode{const}
\tcode{T},''
and
``pointer to
\tcode{volatile}
\tcode{T}''
are considered distinct parameter types, as are
``reference to
\tcode{T},''
``reference to
\tcode{const}
\tcode{T},''
and
``reference to
\tcode{volatile}
\tcode{T}.''
\item
\indextext{default~initializers!overloading~and}%
Two parameter declarations that differ only in their default arguments
are equivalent.
\enterexample
consider the following:

\begin{codeblock}
void f (int i, int j);
void f (int i, int j = 99);     // OK: redeclaration of \tcode{f(int, int)}
void f (int i = 88, int j);     // OK: redeclaration of \tcode{f(int, int)}
void f ();                      // OK: overloaded declaration of \tcode{f}

void prog () {
    f (1, 2);                   // OK: call \tcode{f(int, int)}
    f (1);                      // OK: call \tcode{f(int, int)}
    f ();                       // Error: \tcode{f(int, int)} or \tcode{f()}?
}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample
\exitnote
\end{itemize}

\rSec1[over.dcl]{Declaration matching}%
\indextext{overloading!declaration matching}%
\indextext{scope!overloading and}%
\indextext{base class!overloading and}

\pnum
Two function declarations of the same name refer to the same function if they
are in the same scope and have equivalent parameter declarations~(\ref{over.load}).
A function member of a derived class is
\textit{not}
in the same scope as a function member of the same name in a base class.
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
struct B {
  int f(int);
};

struct D : B {
  int f(const char*);
};
\end{codeblock}

\indextext{name hiding!function}%
\indextext{name hiding!overloading versus}%
Here
\tcode{D::f(const char*)}
hides
\tcode{B::f(int)}
rather than overloading it.

\indextext{Ben}%
\begin{codeblock}
void h(D* pd) {
  pd->f(1);                     // error:
                                // \tcode{D::f(const char*)} hides \tcode{B::f(int)}
  pd->B::f(1);                  // OK
  pd->f("Ben");                 // OK, calls \tcode{D::f}
}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
A locally declared function is not in the same scope as a function in
a containing scope.
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
void f(const char*);
void g() {
  extern void f(int);
  f("asdf");                    // error: \tcode{f(int)} hides \tcode{f(const char*)}
                                // so there is no \tcode{f(const char*)} in this scope
}

void caller () {
  extern void callee(int, int);
  {
    extern void callee(int);    // hides \tcode{callee(int, int)}
    callee(88, 99);             // error: only \tcode{callee(int)} in scope
  }
}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
\indextext{access control!overloading and}%
\indextext{overloading!access control and}%
Different versions of an overloaded member function can be given different
access rules.
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
class buffer {
private:
    char* p;
    int size;
protected:
    buffer(int s, char* store) { size = s; p = store; }
public:
    buffer(int s) { p = new char[size = s]; }
};
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\rSec1[over.match]{Overload resolution}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution|(}%
\indextext{resolution|see{overloading, resolution}}%
\indextext{ambiguity!overloaded function}

\pnum
Overload resolution is a mechanism for selecting the best
function to call given a list of expressions that are to be the
arguments of the call and a set of
\term{candidate functions}
that can
be called based on the context of the call.
The selection
criteria for the best function are the number of arguments, how
well the arguments match the parameter-type-list of the
candidate function,
how well (for non-static member functions) the object
matches the implicit object parameter,
and certain other properties of the candidate function.
\enternote
The function selected by overload resolution is not
guaranteed to be appropriate for the context.
Other restrictions,
such as the accessibility of the function, can make its use in
the calling context ill-formed.
\exitnote

\pnum
\indextext{overloading!resolution!contexts}%
Overload resolution selects the function to call in seven distinct
contexts within the language:

\begin{itemize}
\item
invocation of a function named in the function call syntax~(\ref{over.call.func});
\item
invocation of a function call operator, a pointer-to-function
conversion function, a reference-to-pointer-to-function conversion
function, or a reference-to-function
conversion function on a class object named in the function
call syntax~(\ref{over.call.object});
\item
invocation of the operator referenced in an expression~(\ref{over.match.oper});
\item
invocation of a constructor for direct-initialization~(\ref{dcl.init})
of a class object~(\ref{over.match.ctor});
\item
invocation of a user-defined conversion for
copy-initialization~(\ref{dcl.init}) of a class object~(\ref{over.match.copy});
\item
invocation of a conversion function for initialization of an object of a
nonclass type from an expression of class type~(\ref{over.match.conv}); and
\item
invocation of a conversion function for conversion to a glvalue
or class prvalue
to which a reference~(\ref{dcl.init.ref})
will be directly bound~(\ref{over.match.ref}).
\end{itemize}

Each of these contexts defines the set of candidate functions and
the list of arguments in its own unique way.
But, once the
candidate functions and argument lists have been identified, the
selection of the best function is the same in all cases:

\begin{itemize}
\item
First, a subset of the candidate functions (those that have
the proper number of arguments and meet certain other
conditions) is selected to form a set of
\indextext{function!viable}%
viable functions~(\ref{over.match.viable}).
\item
Then the best viable function is selected based on the
implicit conversion sequences~(\ref{over.best.ics}) needed to
match each argument to the corresponding parameter of each
viable function.
\end{itemize}

\pnum
If a best viable function exists and is unique, overload
resolution succeeds and produces it as the result.
Otherwise
overload resolution fails and the invocation is ill-formed.
When overload resolution succeeds,
and the best viable function is not accessible (Clause~\ref{class.access}) in the context
in which it is used,
the program is ill-formed.

\rSec2[over.match.funcs]{Candidate functions and argument lists}%
\indextext{overloading!candidate functions|(}%
\indextext{overloading!argument lists|(}

\pnum
The subclauses of~\ref{over.match.funcs} describe
the set of candidate functions and the argument list submitted to
overload resolution in each of the seven contexts in which
overload resolution is used.
The source transformations and constructions defined
in these subclauses are only for the purpose of describing the
overload resolution process.
An implementation is not required
to use such transformations and constructions.

\pnum
\indextext{member function!overload resolution and}%
\indextext{function!overload resolution and}%
The set of candidate functions can contain both member and non-member
functions to be resolved against the same argument list.
So that argument and parameter lists are comparable within this
heterogeneous set, a member function is considered to have an
extra parameter, called the
\defn{implicit object parameter},
which represents the object for which the member function has been
called.
For the purposes of overload resolution, both static and
non-static member functions have an implicit object parameter,
but constructors do not.

\pnum
Similarly, when appropriate, the context can construct an
argument list that contains an
\defn{implied object argument}
to denote
the object to be operated on.
Since arguments and parameters are
associated by position within their respective lists, the
convention is that the implicit object parameter, if present, is
always the first parameter and the implied object argument, if
present, is always the first argument.

\pnum
For non-static member functions, the type of the implicit object
parameter is

\begin{itemize}
\item ``lvalue reference to \textit{cv} \tcode{X}'' for functions declared
without a \grammarterm{ref-qualifier} or with the
\tcode{\&} \grammarterm{ref-qualifier}
\item ``rvalue reference to \textit{cv} \tcode{X}'' for functions declared with the
\tcode{\&\&} \grammarterm{ref-qualifier}
\end{itemize}

where
\tcode{X}
is the class of which the function is a member and
\textit{cv}
is the cv-qualification on the
member function declaration.
\enterexample
for a
\tcode{const}
member
function of class
\tcode{X},
the extra parameter is assumed to have type
``reference to
\tcode{const X}''.
\exitexample
For conversion functions, the function is considered to be a member of the
class of the implied object argument for the purpose of defining the
type of the implicit object parameter.
For non-conversion functions
introduced by a
\grammarterm{using-declaration}
into a derived class, the function is
considered to be a member of the derived class for the purpose of defining
the type of the implicit object parameter.
For static member functions, the implicit object parameter is considered
to match any object (since if the function is selected, the object is
discarded).
\enternote
No actual type is established for the implicit object parameter
of a static member function, and no attempt will be made to determine a
conversion sequence for that parameter~(\ref{over.match.best}).
\exitnote

\pnum
\indextext{implied object argument!implicit conversion sequences}%
During overload resolution, the implied object argument is
indistinguishable from other arguments.
The implicit object
parameter, however, retains its identity since conversions on the
corresponding argument shall obey these additional rules:

\begin{itemize}
\item
no temporary object can be introduced to hold the argument
for the implicit object parameter; and
\item
no user-defined conversions can be applied to achieve a type
match with it.
\end{itemize}

\indextext{implied object argument!non-static member function and}%
For non-static member functions declared without a \grammarterm{ref-qualifier},
an additional rule applies:

\begin{itemize}
\item
even if the implicit object parameter is not
\tcode{const}-qualified,
an rvalue can be bound to the parameter
as long as in all other respects the argument can be
converted to the type of the implicit object parameter.
\enternote The fact that such an argument is an rvalue does not
affect the ranking of implicit conversion sequences~(\ref{over.ics.rank}).
\exitnote
\end{itemize}

\pnum
Because other than in list-initialization only one user-defined conversion
is allowed
in an
implicit conversion sequence, special rules apply when selecting
the best user-defined conversion~(\ref{over.match.best},
\ref{over.best.ics}).
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
class T {
public:
  T();
};

class C : T {
public:
  C(int);
};
T a = 1;            // ill-formed: \tcode{T(C(1))} not tried
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
In each case where a candidate is a function template, candidate
function template specializations
are generated using template argument deduction~(\ref{temp.over},
\ref{temp.deduct}).
Those candidates are then handled as candidate
functions in the usual way.\footnote{The process of argument deduction fully
determines the parameter types of
the
function template specializations,
i.e., the parameters of
function template specializations
contain
no template parameter types.
Therefore, except where specified otherwise,
function template specializations
and non-template functions~(\ref{dcl.fct}) are treated equivalently
for the remainder of overload resolution.}
A given name can refer to one or more function templates and also
to a set of overloaded non-template functions.
In such a case, the
candidate functions generated from each function template are combined
with the set of non-template candidate functions.

\pnum
A defaulted move constructor or assignment operator~(\ref{class.copy}) that is
defined as deleted is excluded from the set of candidate functions in all
contexts.

\rSec3[over.match.call]{Function call syntax}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!function call syntax|(}

\pnum
In a function call~(\ref{expr.call})

\begin{ncsimplebnf}
postfix-expression \terminal{(} expression-list\opt \terminal{)}
\end{ncsimplebnf}

if the \grammarterm{postfix-expression} denotes a set of overloaded functions and/or
function templates, overload resolution is applied as specified in \ref{over.call.func}.
If the \grammarterm{postfix-expression} denotes an object of class type, overload
resolution is applied as specified in \ref{over.call.object}.

\pnum
If the \grammarterm{postfix-expression} denotes the address of a set of overloaded
functions and/or function templates, overload resolution is applied using that set as
described above. If the function selected by overload resolution is a non-static member
function, the program is ill-formed. \enternote The resolution of the address of an
overload set in other contexts is described in \ref{over.over}. \exitnote

\rSec4[over.call.func]{Call to named function}

\pnum
Of interest in~\ref{over.call.func} are only those function calls in
which the
\grammarterm{postfix-expression}
ultimately contains a name that
denotes one or more functions that might be called.
Such a
\grammarterm{postfix-expression},
perhaps nested arbitrarily deep in
parentheses, has one of the following forms:

\begin{ncbnf}
postfix-expression:\br
    postfix-expression \terminal{.} id-expression\br
    postfix-expression \terminal{->} id-expression\br
    primary-expression
\end{ncbnf}

These represent two syntactic subcategories of function calls:
qualified function calls and unqualified function calls.

\pnum
In qualified function calls, the name to be resolved is an
\grammarterm{id-expression}
and is preceded by an
\tcode{->}
or
\tcode{.}
operator.
Since the
construct
\tcode{A->B}
is generally equivalent to
\tcode{(*A).B},
the rest of
Clause~\ref{over} assumes, without loss of generality, that all member
function calls have been normalized to the form that uses an
object and the
\tcode{.}
operator.
Furthermore, Clause~\ref{over} assumes that
the
\grammarterm{postfix-expression}
that is the left operand of the
\tcode{.}
operator
has type ``\textit{cv}
\tcode{T}''
where
\tcode{T}
denotes a class\footnote{Note that cv-qualifiers on the type of objects are
significant in overload
resolution for
both glvalue and class prvalue objects.}.
Under this
assumption, the
\grammarterm{id-expression}
in the call is looked up as a
member function of
\tcode{T}
following the rules for looking up names in
classes~(\ref{class.member.lookup}).
The function declarations found by that lookup constitute the set of
candidate functions.
The argument list is the
\grammarterm{expression-list}
in the call augmented by the addition of the left operand of
the
\tcode{.}
operator in the normalized member function call as the
implied object argument~(\ref{over.match.funcs}).

\pnum
In unqualified function calls, the name is not qualified by an
\tcode{->}
or
\tcode{.}
operator and has the more general form of a
\grammarterm{primary-expression}.
The name is looked up in the context of the function
call following the normal rules for name lookup in function
calls~(\ref{basic.lookup}).
The function declarations found by that lookup constitute the
set of candidate functions.
Because of the rules for name lookup, the set of candidate functions
consists (1) entirely of non-member functions or (2) entirely of
member functions of some class
\tcode{T}.
In case (1),
the argument list is
the same as the
\grammarterm{expression-list}
in the call.
In case (2), the argument list is the
\grammarterm{expression-list}
in the call augmented by the addition of an implied object
argument as in a qualified function call.
If the keyword
\tcode{this}~(\ref{class.this}) is in scope and refers to
class
\tcode{T},
or a derived class of
\tcode{T},
then the implied object argument is
\tcode{(*this)}.
If the keyword
\tcode{this}
is not in
scope or refers to another class, then
a contrived object of type
\tcode{T}
becomes the implied object
argument\footnote{An implied object argument must be contrived to
correspond to the implicit object
parameter attributed to member functions during overload resolution.
It is not
used in
the call to the selected function.
Since the member functions all have the
same implicit
object parameter, the contrived object will not be the cause to select or
reject a
function.}.
If the argument list is augmented by a contrived object and overload
resolution selects one of the non-static member functions of
\tcode{T},
the call is ill-formed.

\rSec4[over.call.object]{Call to object of class type}

\pnum
If the
\grammarterm{primary-expression}
\tcode{E}
in the function call syntax evaluates
to a class object of type ``\textit{cv}
\tcode{T}'',
then the set of candidate
functions includes at least the function call operators of
\tcode{T}.
The
function call operators of
\tcode{T}
are obtained by ordinary lookup of
the name
\tcode{operator()}
in the context of
\tcode{(E).operator()}.

\pnum
In addition, for each non-explicit conversion function declared in \tcode{T} of the
form

\begin{ncsimplebnf}
\terminal{operator} conversion-type-id \terminal{(\,)} cv-qualifier ref-qualifier\opt exception-specification\opt attribute-specifier-seq\opt \terminal{;}
\end{ncsimplebnf}

where
\grammarterm{cv-qualifier}
is the same cv-qualification as, or a greater cv-qualification than,
\textit{cv},
and where
\grammarterm{conversion-type-id}
denotes the type ``pointer to function
of (\tcode{P1},...,\tcode{Pn)} returning \tcode{R}'',
or the type ``reference to pointer to function
of (\tcode{P1},...,\tcode{Pn)} returning \tcode{R}'',
or the type
``reference to function of (\tcode{P1},...,\tcode{Pn)}
returning \tcode{R}'', a \term{surrogate call function} with the unique name
\grammarterm{call-function}
and having the form

\begin{ncbnf}
\terminal{R} call-function \terminal{(} conversion-type-id \terminal{F, P1 a1, ... ,Pn an)} \terminal{\{ return F (a1,... ,an); \}}
\end{ncbnf}

is also considered as a candidate function.
Similarly, surrogate
call functions are added to the set of candidate functions for
each non-explicit conversion function declared in a base class of
\tcode{T}
provided the function is not hidden within
\tcode{T}
by another
intervening declaration\footnote{Note that this construction can yield
candidate call functions that cannot be
differentiated one from the other by overload resolution because they have
identical
declarations or differ only in their return type.
The call will be ambiguous
if overload
resolution cannot select a match to the call that is uniquely better than such
undifferentiable functions.}.

\pnum
If such a surrogate call function is selected by overload
resolution, the corresponding conversion function will be called to convert
\tcode{E}
to the appropriate function pointer or reference, and the function
will then be invoked with the arguments of the call. If the
conversion function cannot be called (e.g., because of an ambiguity),
the program is ill-formed.

\pnum
The argument list submitted to overload resolution consists of
the argument expressions present in the function call syntax
preceded by the implied object argument
\tcode{(E)}.
\enternote
When comparing the
call against the function call operators, the implied object
argument is compared against the implicit object parameter of the
function call operator.
When comparing the call against a
surrogate call function, the implied object argument is compared
against the first parameter of the surrogate call function.
The
conversion function from which the surrogate call function was
derived will be used in the conversion sequence for that
parameter since it converts the implied object argument to the
appropriate function pointer or reference required by that first
parameter.
\exitnote
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
int f1(int);
int f2(float);
typedef int (*fp1)(int);
typedef int (*fp2)(float);
struct A {
  operator fp1() { return f1; }
  operator fp2() { return f2; }
} a;
int i = a(1);       // calls \tcode{f1} via pointer returned from
                    // conversion function
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!function call syntax|)}

\rSec3[over.match.oper]{Operators in expressions}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!operators}

\pnum
If no operand of an operator in an expression has a type that is a class
or an enumeration, the operator is assumed to be a built-in operator
and interpreted according to Clause~\ref{expr}.
\enternote
Because
\tcode{.},
\tcode{.*},
and
\tcode{::}
cannot be overloaded,
these operators are always built-in operators interpreted according to
Clause~\ref{expr}.
\tcode{?:}
cannot be overloaded, but the rules in this subclause are used to determine
the conversions to be applied to the second and third operands when they
have class or enumeration type~(\ref{expr.cond}).
\exitnote
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
struct String {
  String (const String&);
  String (const char*);
  operator const char* ();
};
String operator + (const String&, const String&);

void f(void) {
 const char* p= "one" + "two";  // ill-formed because neither
                                // operand has class or enumeration type
 int I = 1 + 1;                 // Always evaluates to \tcode{2} even if
                                // class or enumeration types exist that
                                // would perform the operation.
}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
If either operand has a type that is a class or an enumeration, a
user-defined operator function might be declared that implements
this operator or a user-defined conversion can be necessary to
convert the operand to a type that is appropriate for a built-in
operator.
In this case, overload resolution is used to determine
which operator function or built-in operator is to be invoked to implement the
operator.
Therefore, the operator notation is first transformed
to the equivalent function-call notation as summarized in
Table~\ref{tab:over.rel.op.func}
(where \tcode{@} denotes one of the operators covered in the specified subclause).

\begin{floattable}{Relationship between operator and function call notation}{tab:over.rel.op.func}
{l|m|m|m}
\topline
\hdstyle{Subclause} &   \hdstyle{Expression}    &   \hdstyle{As member function}    &   \hdstyle{As non-member function}    \\ \capsep
\ref{over.unary}    &   @a      &   (a).operator@ (\,)  &   operator@ (a)       \\
\ref{over.binary}   &   a@b &   (a).operator@ (b)   &   operator@ (a, b)        \\
\ref{over.ass}      &   a=b     &   (a).operator= (b)   &                       \\
\ref{over.sub}      &   a[b]    &   (a).operator[](b)   &                       \\
\ref{over.ref}      &   a-> &   (a).operator-> (\,) &                           \\
\ref{over.inc}      &   a@      &   (a).operator@ (0)   &   operator@ (a, 0)    \\
\end{floattable}

\pnum
For a unary operator
\tcode{@}
with an operand of a type whose cv-unqualified version is
\tcode{T1},
and for a binary operator
\tcode{@}
with a left operand of a type whose cv-unqualified version is
\tcode{T1}
and a right operand of a type whose cv-unqualified version is
\tcode{T2},
three sets of candidate functions, designated
\term{member candidates},
\term{non-member candidates}
and
\term{built-in candidates},
are constructed as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item
If
\tcode{T1}
is a complete class type or a class currently being defined, the set of member candidates is the
result of the qualified lookup of
\tcode{T1::operator@}~(\ref{over.call.func}); otherwise, the set of member
candidates is empty.
\item
The set of non-member candidates is the result of the unqualified lookup of
\tcode{operator@}
in the context of
the expression according to the usual rules for name
lookup in unqualified function calls~(\ref{basic.lookup.argdep}) except
that all member functions are ignored.
However, if no operand has a class type, only those non-member
functions in the lookup set that have a first parameter of type
\tcode{T1}
or ``reference to (possibly cv-qualified)
\tcode{T1}'',
when
\tcode{T1}
is an enumeration type,
or (if there is a right operand) a second parameter of type
\tcode{T2}
or ``reference to (possibly cv-qualified)
\tcode{T2}'',
when
\tcode{T2}
is an enumeration type,
are candidate functions.
\item
For the operator
\tcode{,},
the unary operator
\tcode{\&},
or the operator
\tcode{->},
the built-in candidates set is empty.
For all other operators, the built-in candidates include all
of the candidate operator functions defined in~\ref{over.built} that,
compared to the given operator,

\begin{itemize}
\item
have the same operator name, and
\item
accept the same number of operands, and
\item
accept operand types to which the given operand or
operands can be converted according to \ref{over.best.ics}, and
\item
do not have the same parameter-type-list as any non-member candidate
that is not a function template specialization.
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

\pnum
For the built-in assignment operators, conversions of the left
operand are restricted as follows:

\begin{itemize}
\item
no temporaries are introduced to hold the left operand, and
\item
no user-defined conversions are applied to the left operand to achieve
a type match with the left-most parameter of a built-in candidate.
\end{itemize}

\pnum
For all other operators, no such restrictions apply.

\pnum
The set of candidate functions for overload resolution is the
union of the member candidates, the non-member candidates, and
the built-in candidates.
The argument list contains all of the
operands of the operator.
The best function from the set of candidate functions is selected
according to~\ref{over.match.viable}
and~\ref{over.match.best}.\footnote{If the set of candidate functions is empty,
overload resolution is unsuccessful.}
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
struct A {
  operator int();
};
A operator+(const A&, const A&);
void m() {
  A a, b;
  a + b;            // \tcode{operator+(a,b)} chosen over \tcode{int(a) + int(b)}
}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

% USA _136/_28 L6899 USA core-756/734/682 over.match.oper
\pnum
If a built-in candidate is selected by overload resolution, the
operands of class type are converted to the types of the corresponding parameters
of the selected operation function, except that the second standard conversion
sequence of a user-defined conversion sequence~(\ref{over.ics.user}) is not applied.
Then the operator is treated as the corresponding
built-in operator and interpreted according to Clause~\ref{expr}.
\enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
struct X {
  operator double();
};

struct Y {
  operator int*();
};

int *a = Y() + 100.0;      // error: pointer arithmetic requires integral operand
int *b = Y() + X();        // error: pointer arithmetic requires integral operand
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
The second operand of operator
\tcode{->}
is ignored in selecting an
\tcode{operator->}
function, and is not an argument when the
\tcode{operator->}
function is called.
When
\tcode{operator->}
returns, the operator
\tcode{->}
is applied to the value returned, with the original second
operand.\footnote{If the value returned by the
\tcode{operator->}
function has class type, this may result in selecting and calling another
\tcode{operator->}
function.
The process repeats until an
\tcode{operator->}
function returns a value of non-class type.}

\pnum
If the operator is the operator
\tcode{,},
the unary operator
\tcode{\&},
or the operator
\tcode{->},
and there are no viable functions, then the operator is
assumed to be the built-in operator and interpreted according to
Clause~\ref{expr}.

\pnum
\enternote
The lookup rules for operators in expressions are different than
the lookup
rules for operator function names in a function call, as shown in the following
example:

\begin{codeblock}
struct A { };
void operator + (A, A);

struct B {
  void operator + (B);
  void f ();
};

A a;

void B::f() {
  operator+ (a,a);              // error: global operator hidden by member
  a + a;                        // OK: calls global \tcode{operator+}
}
\end{codeblock}
\exitnote

\rSec3[over.match.ctor]{Initialization by constructor}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!initialization}

\pnum
When objects of class type are direct-initialized~(\ref{dcl.init}),
or copy-initialized from an expression of the same or a
derived class type~(\ref{dcl.init}),
overload
resolution selects the constructor.
For direct-initialization, the
candidate functions are
all the constructors of the class of the object being
initialized.
For copy-initialization, the candidate functions are all
the converting constructors~(\ref{class.conv.ctor}) of that
class.
The argument list is the
\grammarterm{expression-list} or \grammarterm{assignment-expression}
of the \grammarterm{initializer}.

\rSec3[over.match.copy]{Copy-initialization of class by user-defined conversion}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!initialization}

\pnum
Under the conditions specified in~\ref{dcl.init}, as
part of a copy-initialization of an object of class type, a user-defined
conversion can be invoked to convert an initializer expression to the
type of the object being initialized.
Overload resolution is used
to select the user-defined conversion to be invoked.
\enternote The conversion performed for indirect binding to a reference to a possibly
cv-qualified class type is determined in terms of a corresponding non-reference
copy-initialization. \exitnote
Assuming that
``\textit{cv1} \tcode{T}'' is the type of the object being initialized, with
\tcode{T}
a class type,
the candidate functions are selected as follows:

\begin{itemize}
\item
The converting constructors~(\ref{class.conv.ctor}) of
\tcode{T}
are candidate functions.
\item
When the type of the initializer expression is a class type
``\textit{cv} \tcode{S}'',
the non-explicit conversion functions of
\tcode{S}
and its base classes are considered.
When initializing a temporary to be bound to the first parameter of a
constructor
that takes a reference to possibly \cv-qualified \tcode{T} as its first argument,
called with a single argument in the context of
direct-initialization of an object of type ``\textit{cv2} \tcode{T}'', explicit
conversion functions are also considered.
Those that are not hidden within
\tcode{S}
and yield a type whose cv-unqualified version is the same type as
\tcode{T}
or is a derived class thereof
are candidate functions.
Conversion functions that return ``reference to
\tcode{X}''
return
lvalues or xvalues, depending on the type of reference, of type
\tcode{X}
and are therefore considered to yield
\tcode{X}
for this
process of selecting candidate functions.
\end{itemize}

\pnum
In both cases, the argument list has one argument, which is the initializer
expression.
\enternote
This argument will be compared against
the first parameter of the constructors and against the implicit
object parameter of the conversion functions.
\exitnote

\rSec3[over.match.conv]{Initialization by conversion function}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!initialization}

\pnum
Under the conditions specified in~\ref{dcl.init}, as
part of an initialization of an object of nonclass type,
a conversion function can be invoked to convert an initializer
expression of class type to the type of the object
being initialized.
Overload resolution is used to select the
conversion function to be invoked.
Assuming that ``\textit{cv1} \tcode{T}'' is the
type of the object being initialized, and ``\textit{cv} \tcode{S}'' is the type
of the initializer expression, with
\tcode{S}
a class type,
the candidate functions are selected as follows:

\begin{itemize}
\item
The conversion functions of
\tcode{S}
and its base classes are considered.
Those non-explicit conversion functions that are not hidden
within
\tcode{S}
and yield type
\tcode{T}
or a type that can be converted to type
\tcode{T}
via a standard conversion sequence~(\ref{over.ics.scs})
are candidate functions.
For direct-initialization, those explicit conversion functions that are not
hidden within \tcode{S} and yield type \tcode{T} or a type that can be converted
to type \tcode{T} with a qualification conversion~(\ref{conv.qual}) are also
candidate functions.
Conversion functions that return a cv-qualified type
are considered to yield the cv-unqualified version of that type
for this process of selecting candidate functions.
Conversion functions that return ``reference to
\textit{cv2}
\tcode{X}''
return
lvalues or xvalues, depending on the type of reference, of type
``\textit{cv2}
\tcode{X}''
and are therefore considered to yield
\tcode{X}
for this
process of selecting candidate functions.
\end{itemize}

\pnum
The argument list has one argument, which is the initializer expression.
\enternote
This argument will be compared against
the implicit object parameter of the conversion functions.
\exitnote

\rSec3[over.match.ref]{Initialization by conversion function for direct reference binding}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!initialization}

\pnum
Under the conditions specified in~\ref{dcl.init.ref}, a reference can be bound directly
to a glvalue or class prvalue that is the result of applying a conversion
function to an initializer expression.
Overload resolution is used to select the
conversion function to be invoked.
Assuming that ``\textit{cv1} \tcode{T}'' is the
underlying type of the reference being initialized, and
``\textit{cv} \tcode{S}'' is the type
of the initializer expression, with
\tcode{S}
a class type,
the candidate functions are selected as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item
The conversion functions of
\tcode{S}
and its base classes are considered.
Those non-explicit conversion functions that are not hidden within
\tcode{S}
and yield type ``lvalue reference to \textit{cv2} \tcode{T2}''
(when initializing an lvalue reference or an rvalue reference to function) or
``\nonterminal{cv2} \tcode{T2}''
or ``rvalue reference to \nonterminal{cv2} \tcode{T2}'' (when initializing an
rvalue reference or an lvalue reference to function),
where ``\textit{cv1} \tcode{T}'' is reference-compatible~(\ref{dcl.init.ref})
with ``\textit{cv2} \tcode{T2}'',
are candidate functions. For direct-initialization, those explicit
conversion functions that are not hidden within \tcode{S} and yield
type ``lvalue reference to \cvqual{cv2} \tcode{T2}'' or ``\cvqual{cv2}
\tcode{T2}'' or ``rvalue reference to \cvqual{cv2} \tcode{T2},''
respectively, where \tcode{T2} is the same type as \tcode{T} or can be
converted to type \tcode{T} with a qualification
conversion~(\ref{conv.qual}), are also candidate functions.

\end{itemize}

\pnum
The argument list has one argument, which is the initializer expression.
\enternote
This argument will be compared against
the implicit object parameter of the conversion functions.
\exitnote

\rSec3[over.match.list]{Initialization by list-initialization}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!initialization}

\pnum
When objects of non-aggregate class type \tcode{T} are
list-initialized~(\ref{dcl.init.list}), overload resolution selects the
constructor in two phases:

\begin{itemize}
\item
Initially, the candidate functions are the initializer-list constructors~(\ref{dcl.init.list})
of the class \tcode{T} and
the argument list consists of the initializer list as a single argument.

\item
If no viable initializer-list constructor is found, overload resolution is
performed again, where the candidate functions are all the constructors of
the class \tcode{T} and
the argument list consists of the elements of the initializer list.
\end{itemize}%
\indextext{overloading!argument lists|)}%
\indextext{overloading!candidate functions|)}

If the initializer list has no elements and \tcode{T} has a default constructor,
the first phase is omitted.
In copy-list-initialization, if an \tcode{explicit} constructor is
chosen, the initialization is ill-formed. \enternote
This differs from other situations (\ref{over.match.ctor},~\ref{over.match.copy}),
where only converting constructors are considered for copy-initialization.
This restriction only
applies if this initialization is part of the final result of overload
resolution. \exitnote

\rSec2[over.match.viable]{Viable functions}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!viable functions|(}

\pnum
From the set of candidate functions constructed for a given
context~(\ref{over.match.funcs}), a set of viable functions is
chosen, from which the best function will be selected by
comparing argument conversion sequences for the best fit~(\ref{over.match.best}).
The selection of viable functions considers
relationships between arguments and function parameters other
than the ranking of conversion sequences.

\pnum
\indextext{ellipsis!overload resolution~and}%
\indextext{default~argument!overload resolution~and}%
First, to be a viable function, a candidate function shall have
enough parameters to agree in number with the arguments in the
list.

\begin{itemize}
\item
If there are
\textit{m}
arguments in the list, all candidate
functions having exactly
\textit{m}
parameters are viable.
\item
A candidate function having fewer than
\textit{m}
parameters is
viable only if it has an ellipsis in its parameter list~(\ref{dcl.fct}).
For the purposes of overload resolution,
any argument for which there is no corresponding parameter is
considered to ``match the ellipsis''~(\ref{over.ics.ellipsis}) .
\item
A candidate function having more than
\textit{m}
parameters is viable
only if the
\textit{(m+1)}-st
parameter has a default
argument~(\ref{dcl.fct.default}).\footnote{According to~\ref{dcl.fct.default},
parameters following the
\textit{(m+1)}-st
parameter must also have default arguments.}
For the purposes of overload
resolution, the parameter list is truncated on the right, so
that there are exactly
\textit{m}
parameters.
\end{itemize}

\pnum
Second, for
\tcode{F}
to be a viable function, there shall exist for each
argument an
\term{implicit conversion sequence}~(\ref{over.best.ics}) that
converts that argument to the corresponding parameter of
\tcode{F}.
If the parameter has reference type, the implicit conversion sequence
includes the operation of binding the reference, and the fact that
an lvalue reference to non-\tcode{const} cannot be bound to an rvalue
and that an rvalue reference cannot be bound to an lvalue
can affect
the viability of the function (see~\ref{over.ics.ref}).

\rSec2[over.match.best]{Best viable function}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!best viable function|(}

\pnum
\indextext{conversion!overload resolution~and}%
Define ICS\textit{i}(\tcode{F}) as follows:

\begin{itemize}
\item
if
\tcode{F}
is a static member function, ICS\textit{1}(\tcode{F}) is defined such that
ICS\textit{1}(\tcode{F}) is neither better nor worse than ICS\textit{1}(\tcode{G})
for any function
\tcode{G},
and, symmetrically, ICS\textit{1}(\tcode{G}) is neither better nor worse than
ICS\textit{1}(\tcode{F})\footnote{If a function is a static member function, this
definition means that the first argument, the implied object argument,
has no effect in the determination of whether the function is better
or worse than any other function.};
otherwise,
\item
let ICS\textit{i}(\tcode{F}) denote the implicit conversion sequence that converts
the \textit{i}-th argument in the list to the type of the
\textit{i}-th
parameter
of viable function
\tcode{F}.
\ref{over.best.ics} defines the implicit conversion sequences and \ref{over.ics.rank}
defines what it means for one implicit conversion sequence to be
a better conversion sequence or worse conversion sequence than
another.
\end{itemize}

Given these definitions, a viable function
\tcode{F1}
is defined
to be a
\term{better}
function than another viable function
\tcode{F2}
if
for all arguments
\textit{i},
ICS\textit{i}(\tcode{F1}) is not a worse conversion
sequence than ICS\textit{i}(\tcode{F2}), and then
\begin{itemize}

\item
for some argument
\textit{j},
ICS\textit{j}(\tcode{F1}) is a better conversion
sequence than ICS\textit{j}(\tcode{F2}), or, if not that,

\item
the context is an initialization by user-defined conversion
(see~\ref{dcl.init},
\ref{over.match.conv}, and~\ref{over.match.ref})
and the standard conversion sequence from the return type of
\tcode{F1}
to the destination type (i.e., the type of the entity being initialized)
is a better conversion sequence than the standard conversion sequence
from the return type of
\tcode{F2}
to the destination type.
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
struct A {
  A();
  operator int();
  operator double();
} a;
int i = a;                      // \tcode{a.operator int()} followed by no conversion
                                // is better than \tcode{a.operator double()} followed by
                                // a conversion to \tcode{int}
float x = a;                    // ambiguous: both possibilities require conversions,
                                // and neither is better than the other
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample
or, if not that,

\item the context is an initialization by conversion function for direct
reference binding (\ref{over.match.ref}) of a reference to function type, the
return type of \tcode{F1} is the same kind of reference (i.e. lvalue or rvalue)
as the reference being initialized, and the return type of \tcode{F2} is not
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
template <class T> struct A {
  operator T&();        // \#1
  operator T&&();       // \#2
};
typedef int Fn();
A<Fn> a;
Fn& lf = a;             // calls \#1
Fn&& rf = a;            // calls \#2
\end{codeblock}

\exitexample
or, if not that,

\item
\tcode{F1}
is not a function template specialization and
\tcode{F2}
is a
function template
specialization, or, if not that,

\item
\tcode{F1}
and
\tcode{F2}
are
function template specializations,
and the function template
for
\tcode{F1}
is more specialized than the template for
\tcode{F2}
according to the partial ordering rules described in~\ref{temp.func.order}.
\end{itemize}

\pnum
If there is exactly one viable function that is a better function
than all other viable functions, then it is the one selected by
overload resolution; otherwise the call is ill-formed\footnote{The algorithm
for selecting the best viable function is linear in the number
of viable
functions.
Run a simple tournament to find a function
\tcode{W}
that is not
worse than any
opponent it faced.
Although another function
\tcode{F}
that
\tcode{W}
did not face
might be at least as good as
\tcode{W},
\tcode{F}
cannot be the best function because at some point in the
tournament
\tcode{F}
encountered another function
\tcode{G}
such that
\tcode{F}
was not better than
\tcode{G}.
Hence,
\tcode{W}
is either
the best function or there is no best function.
So, make a second pass over
the viable
functions to verify that
\tcode{W}
is better than all other functions.}.

\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
void Fcn(const int*,  short);
void Fcn(int*, int);

int i;
short s = 0;

void f() {
  Fcn(&i, s);                   // is ambiguous because
                                // \tcode{\&i} $\to$ \tcode{int*} is better than \tcode{\&i} $\to$ \tcode{const int*}
                                // but \tcode{s} $\to$ \tcode{short} is also better than \tcode{s} $\to$ \tcode{int}

  Fcn(&i, 1L);                  // calls \tcode{Fcn(int*, int)}, because
                                // \tcode{\&i} $\to$ \tcode{int*} is better than \tcode{\&i} $\to$ \tcode{const int*}
                                // and \tcode{1L} $\to$ \tcode{short} and \tcode{1L} $\to$ \tcode{int} are indistinguishable

  Fcn(&i,'c');                  // calls \tcode{Fcn(int*, int)}, because
                                // \tcode{\&i} $\to$ \tcode{int*} is better than \tcode{\&i} $\to$ \tcode{const int*}
                                // and \tcode{c} $\to$ \tcode{int} is better than \tcode{c} $\to$ \tcode{short}
}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
If the best viable function resolves to a function for
which multiple declarations were found, and if at least
two of these declarations --- or the declarations they
refer to in the case of
\grammarterm{using-declaration}{s}
--- specify a default argument that made the function
viable, the program is ill-formed.
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
namespace A {
  extern "C" void f(int = 5);
}
namespace B {
  extern "C" void f(int = 5);
}

using A::f;
using B::f;

void use() {
  f(3);                         // OK, default argument was not used for viability
  f();                          // Error: found default argument twice
}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\rSec3[over.best.ics]{Implicit conversion sequences}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!implicit conversions and|(}

\pnum
An
\term{implicit conversion sequence}
\indextext{sequence!implicit conversion}%
is a sequence of conversions used
to convert an argument in a function call to the type of the
corresponding parameter of the function being called.
The
sequence of conversions is an implicit conversion as defined in
Clause~\ref{conv}, which means it is governed by the rules for
initialization of an object or reference by a single
expression~(\ref{dcl.init}, \ref{dcl.init.ref}).

\pnum
Implicit conversion sequences are concerned only with the type,
cv-qualification, and value category of the argument and how these
are converted to match the corresponding properties of the
parameter.
Other properties, such as the lifetime, storage class,
alignment, or accessibility of the argument and whether or not
the argument is a bit-field are ignored.
So, although an implicit
conversion sequence can be defined for a given argument-parameter
pair, the conversion from the argument to the parameter might still
be ill-formed in the final analysis.

\pnum
A
well-formed implicit conversion
sequence is one of the following forms:

\begin{itemize}
\item
a
\term{standard conversion sequence}~(\ref{over.ics.scs}),
\item
a
\grammarterm{user-defined conversion sequence}~(\ref{over.ics.user}), or
\item
an
\term{ellipsis conversion sequence}~(\ref{over.ics.ellipsis}).
\end{itemize}

\pnum
However, if the target is
\begin{itemize}
\item the first parameter of a constructor or
\item the implicit object parameter of a user-defined conversion function
\end{itemize}
and the constructor or user-defined conversion function is a candidate by
\begin{itemize}
\item \ref{over.match.ctor}, when the argument is the temporary in the second
step of a class copy-initialization,
\item \ref{over.match.copy}, \ref{over.match.conv}, or \ref{over.match.ref}
(in all cases), or
\item the second phase of \ref{over.match.list} when the initializer list
has exactly one element, and the target is the first parameter of a constructor
of class \tcode{X}, and the conversion is to \tcode{X} or reference to
(possibly cv-qualified) \tcode{X},
\end{itemize}
user-defined conversion sequences are not considered.
\enternote
These rules prevent more than one user-defined conversion from being
applied during overload resolution, thereby avoiding infinite recursion.
\exitnote
\enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
  struct Y { Y(int); };
  struct A { operator int(); };
  Y y1 = A();  // error: \tcode{A::operator int()} is not a candidate

  struct X { };
  struct B { operator X(); };
  B b;
  X x({b});    // error: \tcode{B::operator X()} is not a candidate
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
For the case where the parameter type is a reference, see~\ref{over.ics.ref}.

\pnum
When the parameter type is not a reference, the implicit conversion
sequence models a copy-initialization of the parameter from the argument
expression.
The implicit conversion sequence is the one required to convert the
argument expression to a prvalue of the type of
the parameter.
\enternote
When the parameter has a class type, this is a conceptual conversion
defined for the purposes of Clause~\ref{over}; the actual initialization is
defined in terms of constructors and is not a conversion.
\exitnote
Any difference in top-level cv-qualification is
subsumed by the initialization itself and does not constitute a conversion.
\enterexample
a parameter of type
\tcode{A}
can be initialized from an argument of type
\tcode{const A}.
The implicit conversion sequence for that case is the identity sequence; it
contains no ``conversion'' from
\tcode{const A}
to
\tcode{A}.
\exitexample
When the parameter has a class type and the argument expression has the
same type, the implicit conversion sequence is an identity conversion.
When the parameter has a class type and the argument expression has a
derived class type, the implicit conversion sequence is a
derived-to-base
\indextext{conversion!derived-to-base}%
Conversion from the derived class to the base class.
\enternote
There is no such standard conversion; this derived-to-base Conversion exists
only in the description of implicit conversion sequences.
\exitnote
A derived-to-base Conversion has Conversion rank~(\ref{over.ics.scs}).

\pnum
In all contexts, when converting to the implicit object parameter
or when converting to the left operand of an assignment operation
only standard conversion sequences that create no temporary
object for the result are allowed.

\pnum
If no conversions are required to match an argument to a
parameter type, the implicit conversion sequence is the standard
conversion sequence consisting of the identity conversion~(\ref{over.ics.scs}).

\pnum
If no sequence of conversions can be found to convert an argument
to a parameter type or the conversion is otherwise ill-formed, an
implicit conversion sequence cannot be formed.

\pnum
If several different sequences of conversions exist that each
convert the argument to the parameter type, the implicit
conversion sequence associated with the parameter is defined to be
the unique conversion sequence designated the
\term{ambiguous conversion sequence}.
\indextext{sequence!ambiguous conversion}%
For the purpose of ranking implicit conversion sequences as described
in~\ref{over.ics.rank}, the ambiguous conversion sequence is treated
as a user-defined sequence that is indistinguishable from any
other user-defined conversion sequence\footnote{The ambiguous conversion
sequence is ranked with user-defined
conversion sequences because multiple conversion sequences
for an argument can exist only if they involve different
user-defined conversions.  The ambiguous conversion sequence
is indistinguishable from any other user-defined conversion
sequence because it represents at least two user-defined conversion
sequences, each with a different user-defined conversion, and
any other user-defined conversion sequence must be
indistinguishable from at least one of them.

This rule prevents a function from becoming non-viable because of an ambiguous
conversion sequence for one of its parameters.
Consider this example,

\begin{ttfamily}
\begin{tabbing}
\hspace{2in}\=\kill%
\indent class B;\\
\indent class A \{ A (B\&);\};\\
\indent class B \{ operator A (); \};\\
\indent class C \{ C (B\&); \};\\
\indent void f(A) \{ \}\\
\indent void f(C) \{ \}\\
\indent B b;\\
\indent f(b);\>\textrm{// ambiguous because \tcode{b} $\to$ \tcode{C} via constructor and}\\
\indent \>\textrm{// \tcode{b} $\to$ \tcode{A} via constructor or conversion function.}
\end{tabbing}
\end{ttfamily}

If it were not for this rule,
\tcode{f(A)}
would be eliminated as a viable
function for the call
\tcode{f(b)}
causing overload resolution to select
\tcode{f(C)}
as the function to call even though it is not clearly the best
choice.
On the other hand, if an
\tcode{f(B)}
were to be declared then
\tcode{f(b)}
would resolve to that
\tcode{f(B)}
because the exact match
with
\tcode{f(B)}
is better than any of the sequences required to match
\tcode{f(A)}.}.
If a function that uses the ambiguous conversion sequence is selected
as the best viable function, the call will be ill-formed because the conversion
of one of the arguments in the call is ambiguous.

\pnum
The three forms of implicit conversion sequences mentioned above
are defined in the following subclauses.

\rSec4[over.ics.scs]{Standard conversion sequences}

\pnum
Table~\ref{tab:over.conversions}
summarizes the conversions defined in Clause~\ref{conv} and
partitions them into four disjoint categories: Lvalue Transformation,
Qualification Adjustment, Promotion, and Conversion.
\enternote
These categories are orthogonal with respect to value category,
cv-qualification, and data representation: the Lvalue Transformations
do not change the cv-qualification or data
representation of the type; the Qualification Adjustments do not
change the value category or data representation of the type; and
the Promotions and Conversions do not change the
value category or cv-qualification of the type.
\exitnote

\pnum
\enternote
As described in Clause~\ref{conv},
a standard conversion sequence is either the Identity conversion
by itself (that is, no conversion) or consists of one to three
conversions from the other
four categories.
At most one conversion from each
category is allowed in a single standard conversion sequence.
If there are two or more conversions in the sequence, the
conversions are applied in the canonical order:
\textbf{Lvalue Transformation},
\textbf{Promotion}
or
\textbf{Conversion},
\textbf{Qualification Adjustment}.
\exitnote

\pnum
\indextext{conversion rank}%
Each conversion in Table~\ref{tab:over.conversions}
also has an associated rank (Exact
Match, Promotion, or Conversion).
These are used
to rank standard conversion sequences~(\ref{over.ics.rank}).
The rank of a conversion sequence is determined by considering the
rank of each conversion in the sequence and the rank of any reference
binding~(\ref{over.ics.ref}).
If any of those has Conversion rank, the
sequence has Conversion rank; otherwise, if any of those has Promotion rank,
the sequence has Promotion rank; otherwise, the sequence has Exact
Match rank.

\begin{floattable}{Conversions}{tab:over.conversions}{l|c|c|c}
\topline
\hdstyle{Conversion}            &   \hdstyle{Category}          &   \hdstyle{Rank}  &   \hdstyle{Subclause} \\ \capsep
No conversions required         &   Identity                    &                   &                       \\ \cline{1-2}\cline{4-4}
Lvalue-to-rvalue conversion     &                               &                   &   \ref{conv.lval}     \\ \cline{1-1}\cline{4-4}
Array-to-pointer conversion     &   Lvalue Transformation       &   Exact Match     &   \ref{conv.array}    \\ \cline{1-1}\cline{4-4}
Function-to-pointer conversion  &                               &                   &   \ref{conv.func}     \\ \cline{1-2}\cline{4-4}
Qualification conversions       &   Qualification Adjustment    &                   &   \ref{conv.qual}     \\ \hline
Integral promotions             &                               &                   &   \ref{conv.prom}     \\ \cline{1-1}\cline{4-4}
Floating point promotion        &   \rb{Promotion}              &   \rb{Promotion}  &   \ref{conv.fpprom}   \\ \hline
Integral conversions            &                               &                   &   \ref{conv.integral} \\ \cline{1-1}\cline{4-4}
Floating point conversions      &                               &                   &   \ref{conv.double}   \\ \cline{1-1}\cline{4-4}
Floating-integral conversions   &                               &                   &   \ref{conv.fpint}    \\ \cline{1-1}\cline{4-4}
Pointer conversions             &   \rb{Conversion}             &   \rb{Conversion} &   \ref{conv.ptr}      \\ \cline{1-1}\cline{4-4}
Pointer to member conversions   &                               &                   &   \ref{conv.mem}      \\ \cline{1-1}\cline{4-4}
Boolean conversions             &                               &                   &   \ref{conv.bool}     \\
\end{floattable}

\rSec4[over.ics.user]{User-defined conversion sequences}

\pnum
A user-defined conversion sequence consists of an initial
standard conversion sequence followed by a user-defined
conversion~(\ref{class.conv}) followed by a second standard
conversion sequence.
If the user-defined conversion is specified
by a constructor~(\ref{class.conv.ctor}), the initial standard
conversion sequence converts the source type to the type required
by the argument of the constructor.
If the user-defined
conversion is specified by a conversion function~(\ref{class.conv.fct}), the
initial standard conversion sequence
converts the source type to the implicit object parameter of the
conversion function.

\pnum
The second standard conversion sequence converts the result of
the user-defined conversion to the target type for the sequence.
Since an implicit conversion sequence is an initialization, the
special rules for initialization by user-defined conversion apply
when selecting the best user-defined conversion for a
user-defined conversion sequence (see~\ref{over.match.best} and~\ref{over.best.ics}).

\pnum
If the user-defined conversion is specified by a
specialization of a conversion function template,
the second standard conversion sequence shall have exact match rank.

\pnum
A conversion of an expression of class type
to the same class type is given Exact Match rank, and
a conversion of an expression of class type
to a base class of that type is given Conversion rank,
in spite of the
fact that a constructor (i.e., a user-defined conversion
function) is called for those cases.

\rSec4[over.ics.ellipsis]{Ellipsis conversion sequences}

\pnum
\indextext{ellipsis!conversion~sequence}%
An ellipsis conversion sequence occurs when an argument in a
function call is matched with the ellipsis parameter
specification of the function called (see~\ref{expr.call}).

\rSec4[over.ics.ref]{Reference binding}

\pnum
When a parameter of reference type binds directly~(\ref{dcl.init.ref}) to an
argument expression, the implicit conversion sequence is the identity conversion,
unless the argument expression has a type that is a derived class of the parameter
type, in which case the implicit conversion sequence is a derived-to-base
Conversion~(\ref{over.best.ics}).
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
struct A {};
struct B : public A {} b;
int f(A&);
int f(B&);
int i = f(b);                   // calls \tcode{f(B\&)}, an exact match, rather than
                                // \tcode{f(A\&)}, a conversion
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample
If the parameter binds directly to the result of
applying a conversion function to the argument expression, the implicit
conversion sequence is a user-defined conversion sequence~(\ref{over.ics.user}),
with the second standard conversion sequence either an identity conversion or,
if the conversion function returns an entity of a type that is a derived class
of the parameter type, a derived-to-base Conversion.

\pnum
When a parameter of reference type is not bound directly to an argument
expression, the conversion sequence is the one required to convert the argument
expression to the underlying type of the reference according to~\ref{over.best.ics}.
Conceptually, this conversion sequence corresponds to copy-initializing a
temporary of the underlying type with the argument expression.
Any difference
in top-level cv-qualification is subsumed by the initialization itself and
does not constitute a conversion.

\pnum
Except for an implicit object parameter, for which see~\ref{over.match.funcs}, a
standard conversion sequence cannot be formed if it requires
binding an lvalue reference
other than a reference to a non-volatile \tcode{const} type
to an rvalue
or binding an rvalue reference to an lvalue other than a function lvalue.
\enternote
This means, for example, that a candidate function cannot be a viable
function if it has a non-\tcode{const} lvalue reference parameter (other than
the implicit object parameter) and the corresponding argument is
a temporary or would require one to be created to initialize the lvalue
reference (see~\ref{dcl.init.ref}).
\exitnote

\pnum
Other restrictions on binding a reference to a particular argument
that are not based on the types of the reference and the argument
do not affect the formation of a standard conversion
sequence, however.
\enterexample
a function with an ``lvalue reference to \tcode{int}'' parameter can
be a viable candidate even if the corresponding argument is an
\tcode{int}
bit-field.
The formation of implicit conversion sequences
treats the
\tcode{int}
bit-field as an
\tcode{int}
lvalue and finds an exact
match with the parameter.
If the function is selected by overload
resolution, the call will nonetheless be ill-formed because of
the prohibition on binding a non-\tcode{const} lvalue reference to a bit-field~(\ref{dcl.init.ref}).
\exitexample

\rSec4[over.ics.list]{List-initialization sequence}

\pnum
When an argument is an initializer list~(\ref{dcl.init.list}), it is not an
expression and special rules apply for converting it to a parameter type.

\pnum
If the parameter type is \tcode{std::initializer_list<X>}
and all the elements
of the initializer list can be implicitly converted to \tcode{X}, the implicit
conversion sequence is the worst conversion necessary to convert an element of
the list to \tcode{X}, or if the initializer list has no elements, the identity
conversion. This conversion can be a user-defined conversion even in
the context of a call to an initializer-list constructor. \enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
void f(std::initializer_list<int>);
f( {} );                    // OK: \tcode{f(initializer_list<int>)} identity conversion
f( {1,2,3} );               // OK: \tcode{f(initializer_list<int>)} identity conversion
f( {'a','b'} );             // OK: \tcode{f(initializer_list<int>)} integral promotion
f( {1.0} );                 // error: narrowing

struct A {
  A(std::initializer_list<double>);           // \#1
  A(std::initializer_list<complex<double>>);  // \#2
  A(std::initializer_list<std::string>);      // \#3
};
A a{ 1.0,2.0 };             // OK, uses \#1

void g(A);
g({ "foo", "bar" });        // OK, uses \#3

typedef int IA[3];
void h(const IA&);
h({ 1, 2, 3 });             // OK: identity conversion
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
Otherwise, if the parameter type is ``array of \tcode{N} \tcode{X}''\footnote{
Since there are
no parameters of array type, this will only occur as the underlying type of a reference
parameter.}, if the initializer list has exactly \tcode{N} elements or if it has fewer
than \tcode{N} elements and \tcode{X} is default-constructible, and if all the elements
of the initializer list can be implicitly converted to \tcode{X}, the implicit
conversion sequence is the worst conversion necessary to convert an element of the list
to \tcode{X}.

\pnum
Otherwise, if the parameter is a non-aggregate class \tcode{X} and overload
resolution per~\ref{over.match.list} chooses a single best constructor of
\tcode{X} to perform the initialization of an object of type \tcode{X} from the
argument initializer list, the implicit conversion sequence is a user-defined
conversion sequence with the second standard conversion sequence an
identity conversion. If multiple constructors are viable but none is better than
the others, the implicit conversion sequence is the ambiguous conversion
sequence. User-defined conversions are allowed for conversion of the initializer
list elements to the constructor parameter types except as noted
in~\ref{over.best.ics}. \enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
struct A {
  A(std::initializer_list<int>);
};
void f(A);
f( {'a', 'b'} );            // OK: \tcode{f(A(std::initializer_list<int>))} user-defined conversion

struct B {
  B(int, double);
};
void g(B);
g( {'a', 'b'} );            // OK: \tcode{g(B(int,double))} user-defined conversion
g( {1.0, 1.0} );            // error: narrowing

void f(B);
f( {'a', 'b'} );            // error: ambiguous \tcode{f(A)} or \tcode{f(B)}

struct C {
  C(std::string);
};
void h(C);
h({"foo"});                 // OK: \tcode{h(C(std::string("foo")))}

struct D {
  D(A, C);
};
void i(D);
i({ {1,2}, {"bar"} });      // OK: \tcode{i(D(A(std::initializer_list<int>\{1,2\}),C(std::string("bar"))))}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
Otherwise, if the parameter has an aggregate type which can be initialized from
the initializer list according to the rules for aggregate
initialization~(\ref{dcl.init.aggr}), the implicit conversion sequence is a
user-defined conversion sequence with the second standard conversion
sequence an identity conversion. \enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
struct A {
  int m1;
  double m2;
};

void f(A);
f( {'a', 'b'} );            // OK: \tcode{f(A(int,double))} user-defined conversion 
f( {1.0} );                 // error: narrowing
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
Otherwise, if the parameter is a reference, see~\ref{over.ics.ref}. \enternote
The rules in this section will apply for initializing the underlying temporary
for the reference. \exitnote \enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
struct A {
  int m1;
  double m2;
};

void f(const A&);
f( {'a', 'b'} );            // OK: \tcode{f(A(int,double))} user-defined conversion 
f( {1.0} );                 // error: narrowing

void g(const double &);
g({1});                     // same conversion as \tcode{int} to \tcode{double}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
Otherwise, if the parameter type is not a class:

\begin{itemize}
\item if the initializer list has one element, the implicit conversion sequence
is the one required to convert the element to the parameter type; \enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
void f(int);
f( {'a'} );                 // OK: same conversion as \tcode{char} to \tcode{int}
f( {1.0} );                 // error: narrowing
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\item if the initializer list has no elements, the implicit conversion sequence
is the identity conversion. \enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
void f(int);
f( { } );                   // OK: identity conversion 
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample
\end{itemize}

\pnum
In all cases other than those enumerated above, no conversion is possible.

\rSec3[over.ics.rank]{Ranking implicit conversion sequences}

\pnum
\ref{over.ics.rank} defines a partial ordering of implicit conversion
sequences based on the relationships
\term{better conversion sequence}
and
\term{better conversion}.
If an implicit conversion sequence S1 is
defined by these rules to be a better conversion sequence than
S2, then it is also the case that S2 is a
\term{worse conversion sequence}
than S1.
If conversion sequence S1 is neither better
than nor worse than conversion sequence S2, S1 and S2 are said to
be
\term{indistinguishable conversion sequences}.

\pnum
When comparing the basic forms of implicit conversion sequences
(as defined in~\ref{over.best.ics})

\begin{itemize}
\item
a standard conversion sequence~(\ref{over.ics.scs}) is a better
conversion sequence than a user-defined conversion sequence
or an ellipsis conversion sequence, and
\item
a user-defined conversion sequence~(\ref{over.ics.user}) is a
better conversion sequence than an ellipsis conversion
sequence~(\ref{over.ics.ellipsis}).
\end{itemize}

\pnum
Two implicit conversion sequences of the same form are
indistinguishable conversion sequences unless one of the
following rules applies:

\begin{itemize}
\item
Standard conversion sequence
\tcode{S1}
is a better conversion
sequence than standard conversion sequence
\tcode{S2}
if

\begin{itemize}
\item
\indextext{subsequence~rule!overloading}%
\tcode{S1}
is a proper subsequence of
\tcode{S2}
(comparing the conversion sequences in the canonical form defined
by~\ref{over.ics.scs}, excluding any Lvalue Transformation;
the identity conversion sequence is considered to be a
subsequence of any non-identity conversion sequence)
or, if not that,
\item
the rank of
\tcode{S1}
is better than the rank of
\tcode{S2},
or
\tcode{S1}
and
\tcode{S2}
have the same rank and are distinguishable by the rules
in the paragraph below,
or, if not that,

\item \tcode{S1} and \tcode{S2} are reference bindings~(\ref{dcl.init.ref}) and
neither refers to an implicit object parameter of a non-static member function
declared without a \grammarterm{ref-qualifier},
and \tcode{S1} binds an rvalue reference to an
rvalue and \tcode{S2} binds an lvalue reference.

\enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
int i;
int f1();
int&& f2();
int g(const int&);
int g(const int&&);
int j = g(i);                   // calls \tcode{g(const int\&)}
int k = g(f1());                // calls \tcode{g(const int\&\&)}
int l = g(f2());                // calls \tcode{g(const int\&\&)}

struct A {
  A& operator<<(int);
  void p() &;
  void p() &&;
};
A& operator<<(A&&, char);
A() << 1;                       // calls \tcode{A::operator\shl(int)}
A() << 'c';                     // calls \tcode{operator\shl(A\&\&, char)}
A a;
a << 1;                         // calls \tcode{A::operator\shl(int)}
a << 'c';                       // calls \tcode{A::operator\shl(int)}
A().p();                        // calls \tcode{A::p()\&\&}
a.p();                          // calls \tcode{A::p()\&}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample
or, if not that,

\item
\tcode{S1} and \tcode{S2} are reference bindings~(\ref{dcl.init.ref}) and
\tcode{S1} binds an lvalue reference to a function lvalue and \tcode{S2} binds
an rvalue reference to a function lvalue. \enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
int f(void(&)());               // \#1
int f(void(&&)());              // \#2
void g();
int i1 = f(g);                  // calls \#1
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample
or, if not that,

\item
\tcode{S1}
and
\tcode{S2}
differ only in their qualification conversion and yield similar types
\tcode{T1}
and
\tcode{T2}~(\ref{conv.qual}), respectively, and the cv-qualification signature of type
\tcode{T1}
is a proper subset of the cv-qualification signature of type
\tcode{T2}.
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
int f(const int *);
int f(int *);
int i;
int j = f(&i);                  // calls \tcode{f(int*)}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample
or, if not that,

\item
\tcode{S1}
and
\tcode{S2}
are reference bindings~(\ref{dcl.init.ref}), and the types to which the references
refer are the same type except for top-level cv-qualifiers, and the type to
which the reference initialized by
\tcode{S2}
refers is more cv-qualified than the type to which the reference initialized by
\tcode{S1}
refers.
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
int f(const int &);
int f(int &);
int g(const int &);
int g(int);

int i;
int j = f(i);                   // calls \tcode{f(int \&)}
int k = g(i);                   // ambiguous

struct X {
  void f() const;
  void f();
};
void g(const X& a, X b) {
  a.f();                        // calls \tcode{X::f() const}
  b.f();                        // calls \tcode{X::f()}
}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample
\end{itemize}

\item
User-defined conversion sequence
\tcode{U1}
is a better conversion sequence than another user-defined conversion
sequence
\tcode{U2}
if they contain the same user-defined conversion function or
constructor or they initialize the same class in an aggregate
initialization and in either case the second standard conversion
sequence of
\tcode{U1}
is better than
the second standard conversion sequence of
\tcode{U2}.
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
struct A {
  operator short();
} a;
int f(int);
int f(float);
int i = f(a);                   // calls \tcode{f(int)}, because \tcode{short} $\to$ \tcode{int} is
                                // better than \tcode{short} $\to$ \tcode{float}.
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\item
List-initialization sequence \tcode{L1} is a better conversion sequence than
list-initialization sequence \tcode{L2} if

\begin{itemize}
\item
\tcode{L1} converts to \tcode{std::initializer_list<X>} for some \tcode{X} and
\tcode{L2} does not, or, if not that,

\item
\tcode{L1} converts to type ``array of \tcode{N1} \tcode{T}'', \tcode{L2} converts to
type ``array of \tcode{N2} \tcode{T}'', and \tcode{N1} is smaller than \tcode{N2}.
\end{itemize}

\end{itemize}

\pnum
Standard conversion sequences are ordered by their ranks: an Exact Match is a
better conversion than a Promotion, which is a better conversion than
a Conversion.
Two conversion sequences with the same rank are indistinguishable unless
one of the following rules applies:

\begin{itemize}
\item
A conversion that does not convert a pointer,
a pointer to member, or \tcode{std::nullptr_t}
to
\tcode{bool}
is better than one that does.

\item
A conversion that promotes an enumeration whose underlying type is fixed to its underlying
type is better than one that promotes to the promoted underlying type, if the two are
different.

\item
If class
\tcode{B}
is derived directly or indirectly from class
\tcode{A},
conversion of
\tcode{B*}
to
\tcode{A*}
is better than conversion of
\tcode{B*}
to
\tcode{void*},
and conversion of
\tcode{A*}
to
\tcode{void*}
is better than conversion
of
\tcode{B*}
to
\tcode{void*}.
\item
If class
\tcode{B}
is derived directly or indirectly from class
\tcode{A}
and class
\tcode{C}
is derived directly or indirectly from
\tcode{B},

\begin{itemize}
\item
conversion of
\tcode{C*}
to
\tcode{B*}
is better than conversion of
\tcode{C*}
to
\tcode{A*},
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
struct A {};
struct B : public A {};
struct C : public B {};
C* pc;
int f(A*);
int f(B*);
int i = f(pc);                  // calls \tcode{f(B*)}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\item
binding of an expression of type
\tcode{C}
to a reference to type
\tcode{B}
is better than binding an expression of type
\tcode{C}
to a reference to type
\tcode{A},
\item
conversion of
\tcode{A::*}
to
\tcode{B::*}
is better than conversion of
\tcode{A::*}
to
\tcode{C::*},
\item
conversion of
\tcode{C}
to
\tcode{B}
is better than conversion of
\tcode{C}
to
\tcode{A},
\item
conversion of
\tcode{B*}
to
\tcode{A*}
is better than conversion of
\tcode{C*}
to
\tcode{A*},
\item
binding of an expression of type
\tcode{B}
to a reference to type
\tcode{A}
is better than binding an expression of type
\tcode{C}
to a
reference to type
\tcode{A},
\item
conversion of
\tcode{B::*}
to
\tcode{C::*}
is better than conversion
of
\tcode{A::*}
to
\tcode{C::*},
and
\item
conversion of
\tcode{B}
to
\tcode{A}
is better than conversion of
\tcode{C}
to
\tcode{A}.
\end{itemize}

\enternote
Compared conversion sequences will have different source types only in the
context of comparing the second standard conversion sequence of an
initialization by user-defined conversion (see~\ref{over.match.best}); in
all other contexts, the source types will be the same and the target
types will be different.
\exitnote
\end{itemize}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!implicit conversions and|)}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution|)}

\rSec1[over.over]{Address of overloaded function}%
\indextext{overloading!address of overloaded function}%
\indextext{overloadedfunction!address~of}

\pnum
A use of an overloaded function name without arguments is resolved
in certain contexts to a function, a pointer to function or a pointer to
member function for a specific function from the overload set.
A function template name is considered to name a set of overloaded functions
in such contexts.
The function selected is the one whose type is identical to the
function type of the
target type required in the context.
\enternote
That is, the class of which the function is a member is ignored when matching a
pointer-to-member-function type.
\exitnote
The target can be

\begin{itemize}
\item
an object or reference being initialized~(\ref{dcl.init}, \ref{dcl.init.ref},
\ref{dcl.init.list}),
\item
the left side of an assignment~(\ref{expr.ass}),
\item
a parameter of a function~(\ref{expr.call}),
\item
a parameter of a user-defined operator~(\ref{over.oper}),
\item
the return value of a function, operator function, or conversion~(\ref{stmt.return}),
\item
an explicit type conversion~(\ref{expr.type.conv}, \ref{expr.static.cast},
\ref{expr.cast}), or
\item
a non-type
\grammarterm{template-parameter}~(\ref{temp.arg.nontype}).
\end{itemize}

The overloaded function name can be preceded by the
\tcode{\&}
operator.
An overloaded function name shall not be used without arguments in contexts
other than those listed.
\enternote
Any redundant set of parentheses surrounding the overloaded function name is
ignored~(\ref{expr.prim}).
\exitnote

\pnum
If the name is a function template, template argument deduction is
done~(\ref{temp.deduct.funcaddr}), and if the argument deduction succeeds,
the
resulting template argument list is
used to generate a single
function template specialization,
which is added to the set of overloaded functions
considered.
\enternote
As described in~\ref{temp.arg.explicit}, if deduction fails and the
function template name is followed by an explicit template argument list,
the
\grammarterm{template-id}
is then examined to see whether it identifies a single function template
specialization. If it does, the
\grammarterm{template-id}
is considered to be an lvalue for that function template specialization.
The target type is not used in that determination.
\exitnote

\pnum
Non-member functions and static member functions
match targets of type ``pointer-to-function'' or
``reference-to-function.''
Nonstatic member functions match targets of
type ``pointer-to-member-function''.
If a non-static member function is selected, the reference to the overloaded
function name is required to have the form of a pointer to member as
described in~\ref{expr.unary.op}.

\pnum
If more than one function is selected, any
function template specializations
in the set
are eliminated if the set also contains a function that is not a
function template specialization, and
any given
function template specialization
\tcode{F1}
is eliminated if the set contains a second
function template specialization whose function template
is more specialized than the
function template of
\tcode{F1}
according to
the partial ordering rules of~\ref{temp.func.order}.
After such eliminations,
if any, there shall remain exactly one selected function.

\pnum
\enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
int f(double);
int f(int);
int (*pfd)(double) = &f;        // selects \tcode{f(double)}
int (*pfi)(int) = &f;           // selects \tcode{f(int)}
int (*pfe)(...) = &f;           // error: type mismatch
int (&rfi)(int) = f;            // selects \tcode{f(int)}
int (&rfd)(double) = f;         // selects \tcode{f(double)}
void g() {
  (int (*)(int))&f;             // cast expression as selector
}
\end{codeblock}

The initialization of
\tcode{pfe}
is ill-formed because no
\tcode{f()}
with type
\tcode{int(...)}
has been declared, and not because of any ambiguity.
For another example,

\begin{codeblock}
struct X {
  int f(int);
  static int f(long);
};

int (X::*p1)(int)  = &X::f;     // OK
int    (*p2)(int)  = &X::f;     // error: mismatch
int    (*p3)(long) = &X::f;     // OK
int (X::*p4)(long) = &X::f;     // error: mismatch
int (X::*p5)(int)  = &(X::f);   // error: wrong syntax for
                                // pointer to member
int    (*p6)(long) = &(X::f);   // OK
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
\enternote
If
\tcode{f()}
and
\tcode{g()}
are both overloaded functions, the
cross product of possibilities must be considered
to resolve
\tcode{f(\&g)},
or the equivalent expression
\tcode{f(g)}.
\exitnote

\pnum
\indextext{conversion!overload resolution and pointer}%
\enternote
There are no standard conversions (Clause~\ref{conv}) of one
pointer-to-function type into another.
In particular, even if
\tcode{B}
is a public base of
\tcode{D},
we have

\begin{codeblock}
D* f();
B* (*p1)() = &f;                // error

void g(D*);
void (*p2)(B*) = &g;            // error
\end{codeblock}
\exitnote

\rSec1[over.oper]{Overloaded operators}%
\indextext{overloading!operator|(}%
\indextext{overloaded operator|see{overloading, operator}}%
\indextext{operator overloading|see{overloading, operator}}

\pnum
\indextext{operator!overloaded}%
\indextext{function!operator}%
A function declaration having one of the following
\grammarterm{operator-function-id}{s}
as its name declares an
\term{operator function}.
A function template declaration having one of the
following \grammarterm{operator-function-id}{s} as its name
declares an \term{operator function template}. A specialization
of an operator function template is also an operator function.
An operator function is said to
\term{implement}
the operator named in its
\grammarterm{operator-function-id}.

\begin{bnf}
\nontermdef{operator-function-id}\br
    \terminal{operator} operator
\end{bnf}

\begin{bnfkeywordtab}
\nontermdef{operator} \textnormal{one of}\br
\>new\>delete\>new[]\>delete[]\br
\>+\>-\>*\>/\>\%\>\^{}\>\&\>|\>$\sim$\br
\>!\>=\><\>>\>+=\>-=\>*=\>/=\>\%=\br
\>\^{}=\>\&=\>|=\>\shl\>\shr\>\shr=\>\shl=\>={=}\>!=\br
\><=\>>=\>\&\&\>|{|}\>++\>-{-}\>,\>->*\>->\br
\>(\,)\>[\,]
\end{bnfkeywordtab}

\enternote
The last two operators are function call~(\ref{expr.call})
and subscripting~(\ref{expr.sub}).
The operators
\tcode{new[]},
\tcode{delete[]},
\tcode{()},
and
\tcode{[]}
are formed from more than one token.
\exitnote
\indextext{operator!subscripting}%
\indextext{operator!function~call}%

\pnum
Both the unary and binary forms of

\begin{codeblock}
+    -    *     &
\end{codeblock}

can be overloaded.

\pnum
\indextext{restriction!operator~overloading}%
The following operators cannot be overloaded:

\begin{codeblock}
.    .*   ::    ?:
\end{codeblock}

nor can the preprocessing symbols
\tcode{\#}
and
\tcode{\#\#}
(Clause~\ref{cpp}).

\pnum
\indextext{call!operator~function}%
Operator functions are usually not called directly; instead they are invoked
to evaluate the operators they implement~(\ref{over.unary} -- \ref{over.inc}).
They can be explicitly called, however, using the
\grammarterm{operator-function-id}
as the name of the function in the function call syntax~(\ref{expr.call}).
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
complex z = a.operator+(b);     // \tcode{complex z = a+b;}
void* p = operator new(sizeof(int)*n);
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
The allocation and deallocation functions,
\tcode{operator}
\tcode{new},
\tcode{operator}
\tcode{new[]},
\tcode{operator}
\tcode{delete}
and
\tcode{operator}
\tcode{de\-lete\brk[]},
are described completely in~\ref{basic.stc.dynamic}.
The attributes and restrictions
found in the rest of this subclause do not apply to them unless explicitly
stated in~\ref{basic.stc.dynamic}.

\pnum
\indextext{restriction!overloading}%
An operator function
shall either be a non-static member function or be a non-member function and
have at least one parameter whose type is a class, a reference to a class, an
enumeration, or a reference to an enumeration.
It is not possible to change the precedence, grouping, or number of operands
of operators.
The meaning of the operators
\tcode{=},
(unary)
\tcode{\&},
and
\tcode{,}
(comma), predefined for each type, can be changed for specific
class and enumeration types by
defining operator functions that implement these operators.
\indextext{overloaded~operator!inheritance~of}%
Operator functions are inherited in the same manner as other base class
functions.

\pnum
\indextext{operator}%
The identities among certain predefined operators applied to basic types
(for example,
\tcode{++a} $\equiv$
\tcode{a+=1})
need not hold for operator functions.
Some predefined operators, such as
\tcode{+=},
require an operand to be an lvalue when applied to basic types;
this is not required by operator functions.

\pnum
\indextext{argument!overloaded~operator~and default}%
An operator function cannot have default arguments~(\ref{dcl.fct.default}),
except where explicitly stated below.
Operator
functions cannot have more or fewer parameters than the
number required for the corresponding operator, as
described in the rest of this subclause.

\pnum
Operators not mentioned explicitly in subclauses~\ref{over.ass} through~\ref{over.inc}
act as ordinary unary and binary
operators obeying the rules of ~\ref{over.unary} or~\ref{over.binary}.%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!best viable function|)}%
\indextext{overloading!resolution!viable functions|)}

\rSec2[over.unary]{Unary operators}%
\indextext{unary operator!overloaded}%
\indextext{overloading!unary operator}

\pnum
A prefix unary operator shall be implemented by a
non-static member function~(\ref{class.mfct}) with no parameters or a
non-member function with one parameter.
\indextext{unary~operator!interpretation~of}%
Thus, for any prefix unary operator
\tcode{@},
\tcode{@x}
can be interpreted as either
\tcode{x.op\-er\-a\-tor@()}
or
\tcode{operator@(x)}.
If both forms of the operator function have been declared,
the rules in~\ref{over.match.oper} determine which, if any, interpretation is
used.
See~\ref{over.inc} for an explanation of the postfix unary operators
\tcode{++}
and
\tcode{\dcr}.

\pnum
The unary and binary forms of the same operator are considered to have
the same name.
\enternote
Consequently, a unary operator can hide a binary
operator from an enclosing scope, and vice versa.
\exitnote

\rSec2[over.binary]{Binary operators}%
\indextext{binary operator!overloaded}%
\indextext{overloading!binary operator}

\pnum
A binary operator shall be implemented either by a non-static member
function~(\ref{class.mfct})
with one parameter or by a non-member function with two parameters.
\indextext{binary~operator!interpretation~of}%
Thus, for any binary operator
\tcode{@},
\tcode{x@y}
can be interpreted as either
\tcode{x.op\-er\-a\-tor\-@(y)}
or
\tcode{operator@(x,y)}.
If both forms of the operator function have been declared,
the rules in~\ref{over.match.oper} determine which, if any, interpretation is
used.

\rSec2[over.ass]{Assignment}
\indextext{assignment operator!overloaded}%
\indextext{overloading!assignment operator}

\pnum
An assignment operator shall be implemented by a
non-static member function with
exactly one parameter.
Because a copy assignment operator
\tcode{operator=}
is implicitly declared for a class if not declared by the user~(\ref{class.copy}),
a base class assignment operator is always hidden by the copy assignment
operator of the derived class.

\pnum
Any assignment operator, even the copy and move assignment operators, can be virtual.
\enternote
For a derived class
\tcode{D}
with a base class
\tcode{B}
for which a virtual copy/move assignment has been declared,
the copy/move assignment operator in
\tcode{D}
does not override
\tcode{B}'s
virtual copy/move assignment operator.
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
struct B {
  virtual int operator= (int);
  virtual B& operator= (const B&);
};
struct D : B {
  virtual int operator= (int);
  virtual D& operator= (const B&);
};

D dobj1;
D dobj2;
B* bptr = &dobj1;
void f() {
  bptr->operator=(99);          // calls \tcode{D::operator=(int)}
  *bptr = 99;                   // ditto
  bptr->operator=(dobj2);       // calls \tcode{D::operator=(const B\&)}
  *bptr = dobj2;                // ditto
  dobj1 = dobj2;                // calls implicitly-declared
                                // \tcode{D::operator=(const D\&)}
}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample
\exitnote

\rSec2[over.call]{Function call}%
\indextext{function~call~operator!overloaded}%
\indextext{overloading!function call operator}

\pnum
\tcode{operator()}
shall be a non-static member function with an arbitrary number of
parameters.
It can have default arguments.
It implements the function call syntax

\begin{ncsimplebnf}
postfix-expression \terminal{(} expression-list\opt \terminal{)}
\end{ncsimplebnf}

where the
\grammarterm{postfix-expression}
evaluates to a class object and the possibly empty
\grammarterm{expression-list}
matches the parameter list of an
\tcode{operator()}
member function of the class.
Thus, a call
\tcode{x(arg1,...)}
is interpreted as
\tcode{x.op\-er\-a\-tor()(arg1, ...)}
for a class object
\tcode{x}
of type
\tcode{T}
if
\tcode{T::operator()(T1,}
\tcode{T2,}
\tcode{T3)}
exists and if the operator is selected as the best match function by
the overload resolution mechanism~(\ref{over.match.best}).

\rSec2[over.sub]{Subscripting}%
\indextext{subscripting operator!overloaded}%
\indextext{overloading!subscripting operator}

\pnum
\tcode{operator[]}
shall be a non-static member function with exactly one parameter.
It implements the subscripting syntax

\begin{ncsimplebnf}
postfix-expression \terminal{[} expression \terminal{]}
\end{ncsimplebnf}

or

\begin{ncsimplebnf}
postfix-expression \terminal{[} braced-init-list \terminal{]}
\end{ncsimplebnf}

Thus, a subscripting expression
\tcode{x[y]}
is interpreted as
\tcode{x.operator[](y)}
for a class object
\tcode{x}
of type
\tcode{T}
if
\tcode{T::op\-er\-a\-tor[]\-(T1)}
exists and if the operator is selected as the best match function by
the overload resolution mechanism~(\ref{over.match.best}).
\enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
struct X {
  Z operator[](std::initializer_list<int>);
};
X x;
x[{1,2,3}] = 7;           // OK: meaning \tcode{x.operator[](\{1,2,3\})}
int a[10];
a[{1,2,3}] = 7;           // error: built-in subscript operator
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\rSec2[over.ref]{Class member access}
\indextext{member access operator!overloaded}%
\indextext{overloading!member access operator}

\pnum
\tcode{operator->}
shall be a non-static member function taking no parameters.
It implements the class member access syntax that
uses \tcode{->}.

\begin{ncsimplebnf}
postfix-expression \terminal{->} \terminal{template\opt} id-expression\\
postfix-expression \terminal{->} pseudo-destructor-name
\end{ncsimplebnf}

An expression
\tcode{x->m}
is interpreted as
\tcode{(x.operator->())->m}
for a class object
\tcode{x}
of type
\tcode{T}
if
\tcode{T::operator->()}
exists and if the operator is selected as the best match function by
the overload resolution mechanism~(\ref{over.match}).

\rSec2[over.inc]{Increment and decrement}
\indextext{increment operator!overloaded|see{overloading, increment operator}}%
\indextext{decrement operator!overloaded|see{overloading, decrement operator}}%
\indextext{prefix~++ and~-{-} overloading@prefix \tcode{++}~and~\tcode{\dcr}!overloading}%
\indextext{postfix~++~and~-{-} overloading@postfix \tcode{++}~and~\tcode{\dcr}!overloading}%

\pnum
The user-defined function called
\tcode{operator++}
implements the prefix and postfix
\tcode{++}
operator.
If this function is a member function with no parameters, or a non-member
function with one parameter,
it defines the prefix increment operator
\tcode{++}
for objects of that type.
If the function is a member function with one parameter (which shall be of type
\tcode{int})
or a non-member function with two parameters (the second of which shall be of type
\tcode{int}),
it defines the postfix increment operator
\tcode{++}
for objects of that type.
When the postfix increment is called as a result of using the
\tcode{++}
operator, the
\tcode{int}
argument will have value zero.\footnote{Calling
\tcode{operator++}
explicitly, as in expressions like
\tcode{a.operator++(2)},
has no special properties:
The argument to
\tcode{operator++}
is
\tcode{2}.}
\enterexample

\begin{codeblock}
struct X {
  X&   operator++();            // prefix \tcode{++a}
  X    operator++(int);         // postfix \tcode{a++}
};

struct Y { };
Y&   operator++(Y&);            // prefix \tcode{++b}
Y    operator++(Y&, int);       // postfix \tcode{b++}

void f(X a, Y b) {
  ++a;                          // \tcode{a.operator++();}
  a++;                          // \tcode{a.operator++(0);}
  ++b;                          // \tcode{operator++(b);}
  b++;                          // \tcode{operator++(b, 0);}

  a.operator++();               // explicit call: like \tcode{++a;}
  a.operator++(0);              // explicit call: like \tcode{a++;}
  operator++(b);                // explicit call: like \tcode{++b;}
  operator++(b, 0);             // explicit call: like \tcode{b++;}
}
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample

\pnum
The prefix and postfix decrement operators
\tcode{-{-}}
are handled analogously.

\rSec2[over.literal]{User-defined literals}%
\indextext{user-defined literal!overloaded}%
\indextext{overloading!user-defined literal}

\begin{bnf}
\nontermdef{literal-operator-id}\br
    \terminal{operator} string-literal identifier\br
    \terminal{operator} user-defined-string-literal
\end{bnf}

\pnum
The \grammarterm{string-literal} or \grammarterm{user-defined-string-literal}
in a \grammarterm{literal-operator-id} shall have no
\grammarterm{encoding-prefix} and shall contain no characters other than the
implicit terminating \tcode{'\textbackslash 0'}.
The \grammarterm{ud-suffix} of the \grammarterm{user-defined-string-literal} or
the \grammarterm{identifier} in a \grammarterm{literal-operator-id} is called a
\term{literal suffix identifier}.
\enternote some literal suffix identifiers are reserved for future standardization;
see~\ref{usrlit.suffix}. \exitnote

\pnum
A declaration whose \grammarterm{declarator-id} is a
\grammarterm{literal-operator-id} shall be a declaration of a namespace-scope
function or function template (it could be a friend
function~(\ref{class.friend})), an explicit instantiation or specialization of a
function template, or a \grammarterm{using-declaration}~(\ref{namespace.udecl}).
A function declared with a \grammarterm{literal-operator-id} is a \term{literal
operator}. A function template declared with a \grammarterm{literal-operator-id}
is a \term{literal operator template}.

\pnum
The declaration of a literal operator shall have a
\grammarterm{parameter-declaration-clause} equivalent to one of the following:

\begin{codeblock}
const char*
unsigned long long int
long double
char
wchar_t
char16_t
char32_t
const char*, std::size_t
const wchar_t*, std::size_t
const char16_t*, std::size_t
const char32_t*, std::size_t
\end{codeblock}

If a parameter has a default argument~(\ref{dcl.fct.default}), the program is
ill-formed.

\pnum
A \term{raw literal operator} is a literal operator with a single parameter
whose type is \tcode{const char*}.

\pnum
The declaration of a literal operator template shall have an empty
\grammarterm{parameter-declaration-clause} and its
\grammarterm{template-parameter-list} shall have a single
\grammarterm{template-parameter} that is a non-type template parameter
pack (\ref{temp.variadic}) with element type \tcode{char}.

\pnum
Literal operators and literal operator templates shall not have C language linkage.

\pnum
\enternote Literal operators and literal operator templates are usually invoked
implicitly through user-defined literals~(\ref{lex.ext}). However, except for
the constraints described above, they are ordinary namespace-scope functions and
function templates. In particular, they are looked up like ordinary functions
and function templates and they follow the same overload resolution rules. Also,
they can be declared \tcode{inline} or \tcode{constexpr}, they may have internal
or external linkage, they can be called explicitly, their addresses can be
taken, etc. \exitnote

\pnum
\enterexample
\begin{codeblock}
void operator "" _km(long double);                  // OK
string operator "" _i18n(const char*, std::size_t); // OK
template <char...> double operator "" _\u03C0();    // OK: UCN for lowercase pi
float operator ""_e(const char*);                   // OK
float operator ""E(const char*);                    // error: reserved literal suffix~(\ref{usrlit.suffix}, \ref{lex.ext})
double operator""_Bq(double);                       // OK: does not use the reserved name \tcode{_Bq}~(\ref{global.names})
double operator"" _Bq(double);                      // uses the reserved name \tcode{_Bq}~(\ref{global.names})
float operator " " B(const char*);                  // error: non-empty \grammarterm{string-literal}
string operator "" 5X(const char*, std::size_t);    // error: invalid literal suffix identifier
double operator "" _miles(double);                  // error: invalid \grammarterm{parameter-declaration-clause}
template <char...> int operator "" _j(const char*); // error: invalid \grammarterm{parameter-declaration-clause}
extern "C" void operator "" _m(long double);        // error: C language linkage
\end{codeblock}
\exitexample%
\indextext{overloading!operator|)}

\rSec1[over.built]{Built-in operators}%
\indextext{overloading!built-in operators and}

\pnum
The candidate operator functions that represent the built-in operators
defined in Clause~\ref{expr} are specified in this subclause.
These candidate
functions participate in the operator overload resolution process as
described in~\ref{over.match.oper} and are used for no other purpose.
\enternote
Because built-in operators take only operands with non-class type,
and operator overload resolution occurs only when an operand expression
originally has class or enumeration type,
operator overload resolution can resolve to a built-in operator only
when an operand has a class type that has a user-defined conversion to
a non-class type appropriate for the operator, or when an operand has
an enumeration type that can be converted to a type appropriate
for the operator.
Also note that some of the candidate operator functions given in this subclause are
more permissive than the built-in operators themselves.
As
described in~\ref{over.match.oper}, after a built-in operator is selected
by overload resolution the expression is subject to the requirements for
the built-in operator given in Clause~\ref{expr}, and therefore to any
additional semantic constraints given there.
If there is a user-written
candidate with the same name and parameter types as a built-in
candidate operator function, the built-in operator function
is hidden and is not included in the set of candidate functions.
\exitnote

\pnum
In this subclause, the term
\term{promoted integral type}
is used to refer to those integral types which are preserved by
integral promotion (including e.g.
\tcode{int}
and
\tcode{long}
but excluding e.g.
\tcode{char}).
Similarly, the term
\term{promoted arithmetic type}
refers to floating types plus promoted integral types.
\enternote
In all cases where a promoted integral type or promoted arithmetic type is
required, an operand of enumeration type will be acceptable by way of the
integral promotions.
\exitnote

\pnum
For every pair
(\textit{T},
\textit{VQ}),
where
\textit{T}
is an arithmetic type, and
\textit{VQ}
is either
\tcode{volatile}
or empty,
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\textit{VQ T}@& operator++(@\textit{VQ T}@&);
@\textit{T}@ operator++(@\textit{VQ T}@&, int);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every pair
(\textit{T},
\textit{VQ}),
where
\textit{T}
is an arithmetic type other than
\textit{bool},
and
\textit{VQ}
is either
\tcode{volatile}
or empty,
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\textit{VQ T}@& operator--(@\textit{VQ T}@&);
@\textit{T}@ operator--(@\textit{VQ T}@&, int);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every pair
(\textit{T},
\textit{VQ}),
where
\textit{T}
is a cv-qualified or cv-unqualified object type, and
\textit{VQ}
is either
\tcode{volatile}
or empty,
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\textit{T}@*@\textit{VQ}@& operator++(@\textit{T}@*@\textit{VQ}@&);
@\textit{T}@*@\textit{VQ}@& operator--(@\textit{T}@*@\textit{VQ}@&);
@\textit{T}@*    operator++(@\textit{T}@*@\textit{VQ}@&, int);
@\textit{T}@*    operator--(@\textit{T}@*@\textit{VQ}@&, int);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every cv-qualified or cv-unqualified object type
\textit{T},
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\textit{T}@&    operator*(@\textit{T}@*);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every function type
\textit{T} that does not have cv-qualifiers or a \grammarterm{ref-qualifier},
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\textit{T}@&    operator*(@\textit{T}@*);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every type \textit{T} there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\textit{T}@*    operator+(@\textit{T}@*);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every promoted arithmetic type
\textit{T},
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\textit{T}@ operator+(@\textit{T}@);
@\textit{T}@ operator-(@\textit{T}@);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every promoted integral type
\textit{T},
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\textit{T}@ operator@$\sim$@(@\textit{T}@);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every quintuple
(\textit{C1},
\textit{C2},
\textit{T},
\textit{CV1},
\textit{CV2}),
where
\textit{C2}
is a class type,
\textit{C1}
is the same type as C2 or is a derived class of C2,
\textit{T}
is an object type or a function type,
and
\textit{CV1}
and
\textit{CV2}
are
\grammarterm{cv-qualifier-seq}{s},
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\textit{CV12 T}@& operator->*(@\textit{CV1 C1}@*, @\textit{CV2 T C2}@::*);
\end{codeblock}

where
\textit{CV12}
is the union of
\textit{CV1}
and
\textit{CV2}.
The return type is shown for exposition only; see~\ref{expr.mptr.oper} for the
determination of the operator's result type.

\pnum
For every pair of promoted arithmetic types
\textit{L}
and
\textit{R},
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\textit{LR}@      operator*(@\textit{L}@, @\textit{R}@);
@\textit{LR}@      operator/(@\textit{L}@, @\textit{R}@);
@\textit{LR}@      operator+(@\textit{L}@, @\textit{R}@);
@\textit{LR}@      operator-(@\textit{L}@, @\textit{R}@);
bool    operator<(@\textit{L}@, @\textit{R}@);
bool    operator>(@\textit{L}@, @\textit{R}@);
bool    operator<=(@\textit{L}@, @\textit{R}@);
bool    operator>=(@\textit{L}@, @\textit{R}@);
bool    operator==(@\textit{L}@, @\textit{R}@);
bool    operator!=(@\textit{L}@, @\textit{R}@);
\end{codeblock}

where
\textit{LR}
is the result of the usual arithmetic conversions between types
\textit{L}
and
\textit{R}.

\pnum
For every cv-qualified or cv-unqualified object type
\textit{T}
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\textit{T}@*      operator+(@\textit{T}@*, std::ptrdiff_t);
@\textit{T}@&      operator[](@\textit{T}@*, std::ptrdiff_t);
@\textit{T}@*      operator-(@\textit{T}@*, std::ptrdiff_t);
@\textit{T}@*      operator+(std::ptrdiff_t, @\textit{T}@*);
@\textit{T}@&      operator[](std::ptrdiff_t, @\textit{T}@*);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every
\textit{T},
where
\textit{T}
is a pointer to object type,
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
std::ptrdiff_t   operator-(@\term{T}@, @\term{T}@);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every \term{T}, where \term{T} is an enumeration type or a pointer type,
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
bool    operator<(@\term{T}@, @\term{T}@);
bool    operator>(@\term{T}@, @\term{T}@);
bool    operator<=(@\term{T}@, @\term{T}@);
bool    operator>=(@\term{T}@, @\term{T}@);
bool    operator==(@\term{T}@, @\term{T}@);
bool    operator!=(@\term{T}@, @\term{T}@);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every pointer to member type \term{T} or type \tcode{std::nullptr_t} there
exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
bool    operator==(@\term{T}@, @\term{T}@);
bool    operator!=(@\term{T}@, @\term{T}@);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every pair of promoted integral types
\term{L}
and
\term{R},
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\term{LR}@      operator%(@\term{L}@, @\term{R}@);
@\term{LR}@      operator&(@\term{L}@, @\term{R}@);
@\term{LR}@      operator^(@\term{L}@, @\term{R}@);
@\term{LR}@      operator|(@\term{L}@, @\term{R}@);
@\term{L}@       operator<<(@\term{L}@, @\term{R}@);
@\term{L}@       operator>>(@\term{L}@, @\term{R}@);
\end{codeblock}

where
\term{LR}
is the result of the usual arithmetic conversions between types
\term{L}
and
\term{R}.

\pnum
For every triple
(\term{L},
\term{VQ},
\term{R}),
where
\term{L}
is an arithmetic type,
\term{VQ}
is either
\tcode{volatile}
or empty,
and
\term{R}
is a promoted arithmetic type,
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\term{VQ L}@&   operator=(@\term{VQ L}@&, @\term{R}@);
@\term{VQ L}@&   operator*=(@\term{VQ L}@&, @\term{R}@);
@\term{VQ L}@&   operator/=(@\term{VQ L}@&, @\term{R}@);
@\term{VQ L}@&   operator+=(@\term{VQ L}@&, @\term{R}@);
@\term{VQ L}@&   operator-=(@\term{VQ L}@&, @\term{R}@);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every pair (\term{T}, \term{VQ}), where \term{T} is any type and \term{VQ} is either
\tcode{volatile} or empty, there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\term{T}@*@\term{VQ}@&   operator=(@\term{T}@*@\term{VQ}@&, @\term{T}@*);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every pair
(\term{T},
\term{VQ}),
where
\term{T}
is an enumeration or pointer to member type and
\term{VQ}
is either
\tcode{volatile}
or empty,
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\term{VQ} \term{T}@&   operator=(@\term{VQ} \term{T}@&, @\term{T}@);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every pair
(\term{T},
\term{VQ}),
where
\term{T}
is a cv-qualified or cv-unqualified object type and
\term{VQ}
is either
\tcode{volatile}
or empty,
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\term{T}@*@\term{VQ}@&   operator+=(@\term{T}@*@\term{VQ}@&, std::ptrdiff_t);
@\term{T}@*@\term{VQ}@&   operator-=(@\term{T}@*@\term{VQ}@&, std::ptrdiff_t);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every triple
(\term{L},
\term{VQ},
\term{R}),
where
\term{L}
is an integral type,
\term{VQ}
is either
\tcode{volatile}
or empty,
and
\term{R}
is a promoted integral type,
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\term{VQ L}@&   operator%=(@\term{VQ L}@&, @\term{R}@);
@\term{VQ L}@&   operator<<=(@\term{VQ L}@&, @\term{R}@);
@\term{VQ L}@&   operator>>=(@\term{VQ L}@&, @\term{R}@);
@\term{VQ L}@&   operator&=(@\term{VQ L}@&, @\term{R}@);
@\term{VQ L}@&   operator^=(@\term{VQ L}@&, @\term{R}@);
@\term{VQ L}@&   operator|=(@\term{VQ L}@&, @\term{R}@);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
There also exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
bool    operator!(bool);
bool    operator&&(bool, bool);
bool    operator||(bool, bool);
\end{codeblock}

\pnum
For every pair of promoted arithmetic types
\term{L}
and
\term{R},
there exist candidate operator functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\term{LR}@      operator?:(bool, @\term{L}@, @\term{R}@);
\end{codeblock}

where
\term{LR}
is the result of the usual arithmetic conversions between types
\term{L}
and
\term{R}.
\enternote
As with all these descriptions of candidate functions, this declaration serves
only to describe the built-in operator for purposes of overload resolution.
The operator
``\tcode{?:}''
cannot be overloaded.
\exitnote

\pnum
For every type
\term{T},
where
\term{T}
is a pointer, pointer-to-member, or scoped enumeration type, there exist candidate operator
functions of the form

\begin{codeblock}
@\term{T}@       operator?:(bool, @\term{T}@, @\term{T}@);
\end{codeblock}%
\indextext{overloading|)}
