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	P3568R2	break label; and continue label;	J. Schultke	EWG SG22
Mailing Date 2026-05 Pre-Brno Author(s) Jan Schultke Target Audience EWG SG22 Tracking issue View on GitHub Abstract While C++ already has a broad selection of control flow constructs, one construct commonly found in other languages is notably absent: the ability to apply `break` or `continue` to a loop or `switch` when this isn’t the innermost enclosing statement. This feature is popular, simple, and quite useful:
	P3969R1	Fixing std::bit_cast of types with padding bits	J. Schultke	EWG LEWG
Mailing Date 2026-05 Pre-Brno Author(s) Jan Schultke Target Audience EWG LEWG Revisions R2 R0 Tracking issue View on GitHub Abstract > The following use of `std::bit_cast` has undefined behavior at compile time: > > ```cpp > constexpr auto x = std::bit_cast<__int128>(0.0L); // GCC accepts (x = 0), Clang rejects > ``` > > That is because an 80-bit x87 `long double` has 6 bytes of padding, and it is undefined behavior to map those padding bits onto non-padding bits in the destination type via `std::bit_cast`. [[bit.cast]](https:/

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