https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63339
Bug ID: 63339 Summary: "using constructors" from virtual bases are implicitly deleted Product: gcc Version: 4.9.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: jobnoorman at gmail dot com GCC implicitly deletes constructors pulled from a virtual base class with a "using" directive. The error indicates GCC thinks the default definition would be ill-formed. Although I'm not completely sure this is a bug, I'm filing it as such since a quick skim through section 7.3.4 and 12.9 of N3337 revealed no reason why "using" a constructor from a virtual base should be disallowed. Also, Clang compiles the example code just fine. Here is a small piece of code that reproduces this issue: struct A { A(int i) {} }; struct B : virtual A { using A::A; }; void f() { B b{5}; } And the error produced by GCC: $ g++-4.9 -c -std=c++11 test.cpp test.cpp: In function ‘void f()’: test.cpp:13:10: error: use of deleted function ‘B::B(int)’ B b{5}; ^ test.cpp:8:14: note: ‘B::B(int)’ is implicitly deleted because the default definition would be ill-formed: using A::A; ^ test.cpp:8:14: error: no matching function for call to ‘A::A()’ test.cpp:8:14: note: candidates are: test.cpp:3:5: note: A::A(int) A(int i) {} ^ test.cpp:3:5: note: candidate expects 1 argument, 0 provided test.cpp:1:8: note: constexpr A::A(const A&) struct A ^ test.cpp:1:8: note: candidate expects 1 argument, 0 provided test.cpp:1:8: note: constexpr A::A(A&&) test.cpp:1:8: note: candidate expects 1 argument, 0 provided Further information: $ g++-4.9 -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++-4.9 COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.9.1-3ubuntu2~14.04.1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.9/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.9 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.9 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.9.1 (Ubuntu 4.9.1-3ubuntu2~14.04.1)