http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51213
--- Comment #3 from Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-04-27 01:31:49 UTC --- This looks like the root cause. along with r174464, of a regression in C++11 mode from 4.6->4.7 on the following program: $ cat test.cc #include <utility> class Uncopyable { // 2 Uncopyable(const Uncopyable&); // 3 public: Uncopyable() = default; }; struct ContainsUncopyable { std::pair<Uncopyable, int> pv; // 8 }; void foo() { ContainsUncopyable c; // 11 } $ ~/gcc-4.6-svn/bin/g++-4.6pre --version g++-4.6pre (GCC) 4.6.4 20120412 (prerelease) $ g++-4.6pre -c -std=c++0x test.cc $ ~/gcc-4.7-svn/bin/g++-4.7pre --version g++-4.7pre (GCC) 4.7.1 20120412 (prerelease) $ g++-4.7pre -c -std=c++11 test.cc .../include/c++/4.7.1/type_traits: In substitution of ‘template<class _From1, class _To1> static decltype ((__test_aux<_To1>(declval<_From1>()), std::__s finae_types::__one())) std::__is_convertible_helper<_From, _To, false>::__test(int) [with _From1 = _From1; _To1 = _To1; _From = const Uncopyable&; _To = Uncopyable] [with _From1 = const Uncopyable&; _To1 = Uncopyable]’: .../include/c++/4.7.1/type_traits:1258:70: required from ‘constexpr const bool std::__is_convertible_helper<const Uncopyable&, Uncopyable, false>::valu e’ .../include/c++/4.7.1/type_traits:1263:12: required from ‘struct std::is_convertible<const Uncopyable&, Uncopyable>’ .../include/c++/4.7.1/type_traits:116:12: required from ‘struct std::__and_<std::is_convertible<const Uncopyable&, Uncopyable>, std::is_convertible<con st int&, int> >’ .../include/c++/4.7.1/bits/stl_pair.h:113:38: required from here test.cc:3:3: error: ‘Uncopyable::Uncopyable(const Uncopyable&)’ is private In file included from .../include/c++/4.7.1/bits/move.h:57:0, from .../include/c++/4.7.1/bits/stl_pair.h:61, from .../include/c++/4.7.1/utility:72, from test.cc:1: .../include/c++/4.7.1/type_traits:1252:2: error: within this context ... The workaround is to use =delete instead of access control to create non-copyable classes in C++11 mode.