http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51657
--- Comment #4 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-12-22 22:28:39 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > Report silently ignored. No it wasn't, see the note at the top of the post: [Moderator's note: this defect report has been forwarded to the C++ committee. -moderator.] It was opened as an issue and rejected as not a defect: http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/lwg-defects.html#362 Stop making unfounded and incorrect claims such as "This code should not compile" and "silently ignored" Stating everything with such certainty when you haven't checked and are wrong just makes it harder to take your bug reports seriously.