http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51253
--- Comment #10 from Akim Demaille <akim.demaille at gmail dot com> --- Well, I have finally found a simple workaround for some of the cases: GCC seems to be right in the order of evaluation when initializing an array so: template<int... IS> int f1() { int i = 0; swallow{ i = 10 * i + IS... }; return i; } fails, but template<int... IS> int f2() { using swallow = int[]; int i = 0; (void) swallow{ i = 10 * i + IS... }; return i; } succeeds. However, GCC's own libstdc++ is exposed to this bug, for instance make_tuple. $ cat foo.cc #include <iostream> #include <tuple> struct swallow { template<typename... Types> swallow(Types &&...){} }; int incr() { static int res = 2; return res++; } template<int... IS> int f1() { int i = 0; swallow{ i = 10 * i + IS... }; return i; } template<int... IS> int f2() { using swallow = int[]; int i = 0; (void) swallow{ i = 10 * i + IS... }; return i; } int main() { // `i = i * 2 + 2' should be sequenced before `i = i * 3 + 3' std::cerr << f1<2, 3>() << '\t'; std::cerr << f2<2, 3>() << '\t'; auto t = std::make_tuple(incr(), incr()); std::cerr << std::get<0>(t) << std::get<1>(t) << '\n'; } $ ./a.32 23 23 23 $ ./a.33 23 23 23 $ ./a.34 23 23 23 $ ./a.35 23 23 23 $ ./a.48 32 23 32 $ ./a.49 32 23 32 where 32...35 is clang++, and 48,49 is gcc.