http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52892
Adrien Guinet <adrien at guinet dot me> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |adrien at guinet dot me --- Comment #2 from Adrien Guinet <adrien at guinet dot me> 2012-05-29 09:26:29 UTC --- Hello everyone, Im ay have an issue related to this issue, if that can help: #include <iostream> struct A { void f(int i) { std::cout << "f " << i << " " << _i << std::endl; } void f2(int i) { std::cout << "f2 " << i << " " << _i << std::endl; } int _i; }; template <typename F, F f> struct class_f { typedef F f_type; static constexpr f_type f_value = f; static constexpr f_type get() { return f; } }; int main() { typedef class_f<decltype(&A::f), &A::f> ff_t; // This does not compile class_f<ff_t::f_type, ff_t::f_value> ff; // This does not compile either class_f<ff_t::f_type, static_cast<ff_t::f_type>(&A::f)> ff2; // This does class_f<ff_t::f_type, &A::f> ff_works; } It looks like using a function pointer that has been "instantiated" as an "f_type" makes the compilation fails. here is the output of g++-4.7 with the first "failing" tests : $ g++-4.7 -std=c++0x ftempl.cpp ftempl.cpp: In function ‘int main()’: ftempl.cpp:24:37: error: could not convert template argument ‘class_f<void (A::*)(int), &A::f>::f_value’ to ‘void (A::*)(int)’ ftempl.cpp:24:41: error: invalid type in declaration before ‘;’ token $ g++-4.7 --version g++-4.7 (Debian 4.7.0-8) 4.7.0