http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51096
Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #2 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-11-11 14:20:12 UTC --- note that the EBO is performed again if Derived::a is not the first member, because then it has a distinct address anyway: struct Derived : public Base { bool b; Base a; }; static_assert(sizeof(Derived) == 2, "empty base"); Closing as invalid, MSVC is wrong to allow two objects of the same type to have the same address.