http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55311
Niels Penneman <niels at penneman dot org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |rejects-valid Known to fail| |4.6.3, 4.7.2, 4.8.0 --- Comment #1 from Niels Penneman <niels at penneman dot org> 2012-12-04 21:00:50 UTC --- Exact same thing in a slightly different shape: with a derived struct instead of a 'using' alias =================================================== $ g++ -### Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.8.0-alpha20121202/g++ COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.0-alpha20121202/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.8.0_alpha20121202/work/gcc-4.8-20121202/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.8.0-alpha20121202 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.0-alpha20121202/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.0-alpha20121202 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.0-alpha20121202/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.0-alpha20121202/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.0-alpha20121202/include/g++-v4 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --with-ppl --with-cloog --disable-ppl-version-check --with-cloog-include=/usr/include/cloog-ppl --enable-lto --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --enable-obsolete --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --enable-multilib --with-multilib-list=m32,m64 --enable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-libgomp --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.0-alpha20121202/python --enable-checking=release --disable-libgcj --disable-libquadmath --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-targets=all --with-bugurl=http://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 4.8.0_alpha20121202' Thread model: posix gcc version 4.8.0-alpha20121202 20121202 (experimental) (Gentoo 4.8.0_alpha20121202) =================================================== extern constexpr char STRING_PTR[] = "test"; template <const char *const C, typename T> struct A {}; template <typename T> struct B: A<STRING_PTR, T> {}; =================================================== $ g++ -fsyntax-only -std=c++11 test2.cxx test2.cxx:7:26: error: ‘"test"’ is not a valid template argument of type ‘const char*’ because ‘"test"’ is not a variable struct B: A<STRING_PTR, T> {}; ^ ===================================================