http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53473
--- Comment #1 from Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler at googlemail dot com> 2012-05-25 06:56:06 UTC --- This looks indeed like an odd compiler error and one really needs all three specifiers static, constexpr, and *any* exception-specification to produce the problem. For completeness the error is: "7|error: declaration of 'static constexpr T A<T>::foo() [with T = int]' has a different exception specifier| 3|error: from previous declaration 'static constexpr T A<T>::foo() noexcept (true) [with T = int]' "