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c++ - Template "copy constructor" does not prevent compiler-generated move constructor

Consider the following program and the comments in it:

template<class T>
struct S_ {
    S_() = default;

    // The template version does not forbid the compiler
    // to generate the move constructor implicitly
    template<class U> S_(const S_<U>&) = delete;

    // If I make the "real" copy constructor
    // user-defined (by deleting it), then the move
    // constructor is NOT implicitly generated
    // S_(const S_&) = delete;
};

using S = S_<int>;

int main() {
    S s;
    S x{static_cast<S&&>(s)};
}

The question is: why does not user-defining the template constructor (which effectively acts as a copy constructor when U = T) prevent the compiler from generating the move constructor, while, on the contrary, if I user define the "real" copy constructor (by deleting it), then the move constructor is not generated implicitly (the program would not compile)? (Probably the reason is that "template version" does not respect the standard definition of copy-constructor also when T = U?).

The good thing is that that seems to apparently be what I want. In facts, I need all the copy and move constructors and all the move and copy assignment operators that the compiler would generate implicitly as if S was simply defined as template<class U> S{}; plus the template constructor for the conversions from other S<U>. By standard, can I rely on the above definition of S to have all the mentioned stuff I need? If yes, I could then avoid to "default'ing" them explicitly.

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The answer is simple - There is no (!) template copy constructor. Even if the template parameter matches the parameter of a copy constructor it is no copy constructor.

See 12.8 Copying and moving class objects

A non-template constructor for class X is a copy constructor if its first parameter is of type X&, const X&, volatile X& or const volatile X&, and either there are no other parameters or else all other parameters have default arguments (8.3.6). [ Example: X::X(const X&) and X::X(X&,int=1) are copy constructors.

Similar applies to the move constructor


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