[basic.life]/6 and [basic.life]/7 Duplicate wording regarding access outside of lifetime
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The wording for [basic.life]/6 and [basic.life]/7 is basically the same, except:
- [basic.life]/6.2: the pointer is used to access a non-static data member or call a non-static member function of the object
is not the same as
- [basic.life]/7.1: the glvalue is used to access the object
- [basic.life]/7.2: the glvalue is used to call a non-static member function of the object
[basic.life]/6 lacks a description of using pointers to access the object, but the lvalue result of pointer dereferencing still applies to [basic.life]/7.1. [basic.life]/7 lacks a description of accessing a non-static data member of the object, but accessing a non-static data member of the object is accessing the object.
And wording that applies only to pointers in [basic.life]/6:
- [basic.life]/6.1: the object will be or was of a class type with a non-trivial destructor and the pointer is used as the operand of a delete-expression
- [basic.life]/6.4: the pointer is used as the operand of a static_cast ([expr.static.cast]), except when the conversion is to pointer to cv void, or to pointer to cv void and subsequently to pointer to cv char, cv unsigned char, or cv std::byte ([cstddef.syn])
This creates unnecessary repetition and can be confusing. So, wording similar to cppreference#Access outside of lifetime can be used.
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Compare [basic.life]/6 and [basic.life]/7, including the pointer-only cases listed in the issue, and read cppreference's “Access outside of lifetime” section for context. Done means the draft avoids duplicated wording while still covering pointer access, non-static data member access, member-function calls, delete-expressions, and the listed casts.
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