http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52145
Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|SUSPENDED |NEW CC| |jyasskin at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #3 from Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-04-26 19:42:19 UTC --- A simpler test case is: $ cat test.cc const long kNullPtr = 0; const long* ptr = kNullPtr; $ g++-4.7pre -c test.cc -std=gnu++11 test.cc:2:19: error: invalid conversion from ‘long int’ to ‘const long int*’ [-fpermissive] $ g++-4.7pre --version g++-4.7pre (GCC) 4.7.1 20120412 (prerelease) I'm going to unsuspend this because DR903 is "ready", and gcc-4.7's behavior doesn't match either the proposed wording or the current definition of C++11. The proposed wording discusses a change to C++17 rather than to C++11 (we can tell because it adds a "C.3 C++ and ISO C++ 2011" section), so the new error should only show up under -std=gnu++17, and be a warning in -std=gnu++11.