http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53498
Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler at googlemail dot com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |daniel.kruegler at | |googlemail dot com --- Comment #1 from Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler at googlemail dot com> 2012-05-27 14:32:40 UTC --- While the test code is somewhat broken, I found some suspicious compiler behaviour when rewriting this into the following form, compiled with -std=c++11 -Wall using gcc 4.8.0 20120520 (experimental): //------------ template<typename... Args> struct A { template<typename U> static auto a(const U& u, const Args&... args, int) -> decltype(u.print(args...)) { return u.print(args...); } template<typename U> static int a(const U& u, const Args&... args, ...) { return 0; } }; template<typename... Args> struct B { template<typename U> static void b(const U& u, const Args&... args, decltype(A<Args...>::a(u, args..., 0)) dummy) { } }; int main() { A<int>::a(0, 0, 0); // OK B<int>::b(0, 0, 0); // ? } //------------ On my mingw build there is no diagnostics and no binary output produced except that the compiler does not return successfully due to the last line instantiating B<int>. In my experience that gives a seg fault on other systems, so I recommend to run it through another system.