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@@ -27,12 +27,23 @@ struct E {
   constexpr E(){};
 } TestE;
 
-// Declared but not defined constexpr constructor should not emit full debug 
info..
-// CHECK-DAG: !DICompositeType(tag: DW_TAG_structure_type, name: 
"DeclaredConstexpr"{{.*}}flags: DIFlagFwdDecl
+// A constexpr constructor that is only declared here may still be defined
+// elsewhere and called, so it cannot be relied on to home the type.
+// CHECK-DAG: !DICompositeType(tag: DW_TAG_structure_type, name: 
"DeclaredConstexpr"{{.*}}DIFlagTypePassByValue
 struct DeclaredConstexpr {
   constexpr DeclaredConstexpr();
 } TestDeclaredConstexpr;
 
+// A declared-only constexpr constructor that is never odr-used need not be
+// defined anywhere in the program, so nothing would ever emit the definition
+// of the type - but the type is still required to be complete here.
+// CHECK-DAG: !DICompositeType(tag: DW_TAG_structure_type, name: 
"ConstexprDeclaredOnly"{{.*}}DIFlagTypePassByValue
+struct ConstexprDeclaredOnly {
+  unsigned long v;
+  constexpr ConstexprDeclaredOnly(unsigned long t);
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avikivity wrote:

> If you declare a constexpr constructor, then in order to construct this type, 
> you must invoke this constructor, right? Even if you call it from a 
> non-constexpr context, the program won't link unless the constructor is 
> defined somewhere.

Isn't this true for non-constexpr constructors are well?

I now understand better the original patch, which wants whoever invokes the 
constructor to emit the debug information. But something isn't working.

> 
> There is no context that I can think of that would allow you to construct 
> this type through this constructor without being able to see the constructors 
> definition (which would opt the TU out of ctor homing), and without the 
> constructor defined elsewhere (which would opt the defining TU out of ctor 
> homing).
> 
> The method below, in a real program, could never be invoked, unless you do 
> something like `reinterpret_cast` memory constructed as some other type to 
> `ConstexprDeclaredOnly`, which is UB (by my understanding).

My original reproducer does call the constructor.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/221566
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