------- Comment #3 from v dot haisman at sh dot cvut dot cz 2009-08-25 14:20 ------- (In reply to comment #2) > Why would this be ambiguous? A string literal has type "array of n const char" > (see 2.13.4/1), so it should go with the array constructor. Do you disagree? > > W. > IANALL, but I think this might be the reason:
The conversion sequence for S (T const *) is array-to-pointer conversion as per 4.2. The conversion sequence for S (char const (&)[N]) is lvalue-to-rvalue conversion. For both the ranks are the exact match and thus they are indistinguishable conversion sequences as per 13.3.3.2? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40942
