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P3790R2 Pointer lifetime-end zap proposed solutions: Bag-of-bits pointer class Paul E. McKenney P. McKenney , Maged Michael M. Michael , Jens Maurer J. Maurer , Peter Sewell P. Sewell , Hans Boehm H. Boehm , Hubert Tong H. Tong , Niall Douglas N. Douglas , Thomas Rodgers T. Rodgers , Will Deacon W. Deacon , Michael Wong M. Wong , David Goldblatt D. Goldblatt , Kostya Serebryany K. Serebryany , Anthony Williams A. Williams , Tom Scogland T. Scogland , JF Bastien J. Bastien , Daniel Krügler D. Krügler , David Tenty D. Tenty 2026-07
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Abstract The C++ standard currently specifies that all pointers to an object become invalid at the end of its lifetime [basic.life]. Although this permits additional diagnostics and optimizations which might be of some value, it is not consistent with long-standing usage, especially for a range of concurrent and sequential algorithms that rely on loads, stores, equality comparisons, and even dereferencing
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