https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50060
--- Comment #7 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Shouldn't this be solvable in C++14 and later? We still reject it: error: ‘((y = 1), 6.2e-1)’ is not a constant expression but I suppose with some hacking of cp/constexpr.c this could be handled. constexpr double f1 (double x) { int y = 0; return __builtin_frexp (x, &y); } constexpr int f2 (double x) { int y = 0; __builtin_frexp (x, &y); return y; } constexpr double c1 = f1 (1.24); constexpr int c2 = f2 (1.24);