http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57765
Bug ID: 57765 Summary: [C++11] Variadic Template Specialization does not follow the INCITS/ISO/IEC 14882-2011 standard Product: gcc Version: 4.8.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: aaronngray.lists at gmail dot com Prompted by a Stack Overflow article :- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17332749/vs2013-fails-with-variadic-template-specialization/ There seems to be anomalies between GCC 4.8.1's 0x11 implementation and the standard. It shows the code :- template <typename Sig, Sig& S> struct OpF; template <typename TR, typename ... Ts, TR (&f)(Ts...)> struct OpF<TR (Ts...), f> { }; int foo(int x) { return 0; } OpF<int (int), foo> f; Given the C++ Standard outlaws this code, see 14.1 paragraphs 11 and 15. Note that GCC accepts the following code with either -std=gnu++11 or -std=c++11, the latter should be strict to the standard. Also given these paragraphs were in the draft C++ standard too. On the other hand GCC 4.8.1 will not accept a simple trailing 'int' parameter after a variadic template list. template < typename TR, typename ... Ts, int i> TR tester(Ts...); // error: parameter pack ‘Ts’ must be at the end of the template parameter list There seems to be quite an inconsistency even in an augmentation to the standard. On a personal note both these forms are syntactically correct but not semantically by the standard, given that this is just a simple type based pattern matching problem as far as I can see it would be nice to have it within the language as it seems to fit naturally with requirements.