https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99456
--- Comment #6 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Another thing is that perhaps we should be rejecting reinterpret_cast only in the pedantic constant expression evaluation mode, not when we allow extensions and fold as much as we can. So something like (incremental): --- gcc/cp/constexpr.c 2021-03-08 13:08:49.944229227 +0100 +++ gcc/cp/constexpr.c 2021-03-08 14:23:01.263716186 +0100 @@ -6629,11 +6629,9 @@ case NOP_EXPR: case CONVERT_EXPR: - if (REINTERPRET_CAST_P (t)) + if (REINTERPRET_CAST_P (t) && !ctx->quiet) { - if (!ctx->quiet) - error_at (loc, - "%<reinterpret_cast%> is not a constant expression"); + error_at (loc, "%<reinterpret_cast%> is not a constant expression"); *non_constant_p = true; return t; } @@ -8103,13 +8101,6 @@ case NOP_EXPR: case CONVERT_EXPR: - if (REINTERPRET_CAST_P (t)) - { - if (flags & tf_error) - error_at (loc, "%<reinterpret_cast%> is not a constant expression"); - return false; - } - /* FALLTHRU */ case VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR: /* -- a reinterpret_cast. FIXME not implemented, and this rule may change to something more specific to type-punning (DR 1312). */ But that doesn't make these inline vars statically initialized either, really confused on what's going on.