http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46687
--- Comment #3 from Hubert Tong <hstong at ca dot ibm.com> 2010-11-28 04:23:55 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > However, because you have using declarations in B1 and B2 name lookup finds > B1::foo and B2::foo ... at least by my reading, which could be wrong It does find B1::foo and B2::foo, but then again, B1::foo and B2::foo refer to the same functions. In the N3126 wording, the declaration sets for looking up B1::foo and B2::foo are the same. I believe the case presented is valid under both the C++03 and the N3126 wording. >>> C++03 subclause 10.2 [class.member.lookup] paragraph 2: First, every declaration for the name in the class and in each of its base class sub-objects is considered. ... Each of these declarations that was introduced by a using-declaration is considered to be from each sub-object of C that is of the type containing the declaration designated by the using-declaration. If the resulting set of declarations are not all from sub-objects of the same type, or the set has a nonstatic member and includes members from distinct sub-objects, there is an ambiguity and the program is ill-formed. Otherwise that set is the result of the lookup. <<< My understanding is that the resulting set of declarations are all from subobjects of the same type (the two subobjects, C::B1::A and C::B2::A) and the set has no nonstatic members (all functions foo() are static member functions). >From this paragraph, we have a set of declarations as the result of lookup: { ::A::foo(void), ::A::foo(char) } Overload resolution then takes place.