@@ -257,13 +257,14 @@
 
 \pnum
 Throwing an exception
-copy-initializes\iref{dcl.init,class.copy.ctor} a temporary object,
+initializes a temporary object,
 called the
 \defnx{exception object}{exception handling!exception object}.
 If the type of the exception object would be
-an incomplete type,
+an incomplete type\iref{basic.types.general},
 an abstract class type\iref{class.abstract},
-or a pointer to an incomplete type other than \cv{}~\keyword{void}
+or a pointer to an incomplete type other than
+\cv{}~\keyword{void}\iref{basic.compound}
 the program is ill-formed.
 
 \pnum
 
@@ -7089,6 +7089,8 @@
 The type of the exception object is determined by removing
 any top-level \grammarterm{cv-qualifier}{s} from the type of the
 (possibly converted) operand.
+The exception object is copy-initialized\iref{dcl.init.general}
+from the (possibly converted) operand.
 
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 \indextext{exception handling!rethrow}%