http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49329
--- Comment #2 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-06-08 21:29:03 UTC --- (In reply to comment #0) > I want a static and a non-static method with the same name you might want to rethink that cc::xx is a qualified name lookup, so can find both overloads of cc::xx The implicit pointer-to-bool conversion is a better conversion sequence than the user-defined conversion char*-to-std::string so it is selected, but calling a member function without an an object is obviously ill-formed
