Instantiating the compound literal for the underlying array of the initializer list was creating a new variable, so then we would pull out that variables initializer and instantiate that, ad infinitum. We shouldn't need to instantiate the initializer for any artificial variable.
Tested x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, applying to trunk.
commit 2fb3877338f276ea8f9a8871b823a359672cbc99 Author: Jason Merrill <ja...@redhat.com> Date: Mon Jul 11 15:01:13 2016 -0400 PR c++/70824 - initializer_list in template * init.c (constant_value_1): Don't instantiated DECL_INITIAL of artificial variables. diff --git a/gcc/cp/init.c b/gcc/cp/init.c index b4a4388..6047639 100644 --- a/gcc/cp/init.c +++ b/gcc/cp/init.c @@ -2073,8 +2073,13 @@ constant_value_1 (tree decl, bool strict_p, bool return_aggregate_cst_ok_p) && TREE_CODE (init) == TREE_LIST && TREE_CHAIN (init) == NULL_TREE) init = TREE_VALUE (init); - /* Instantiate a non-dependent initializer. */ - init = instantiate_non_dependent_or_null (init); + /* Instantiate a non-dependent initializer for user variables. We + mustn't do this for the temporary for an array compound literal; + trying to instatiate the initializer will keep creating new + temporaries until we crash. Probably it's not useful to do it for + other artificial variables, either. */ + if (!DECL_ARTIFICIAL (decl)) + init = instantiate_non_dependent_or_null (init); if (!init || !TREE_TYPE (init) || !TREE_CONSTANT (init) diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp0x/initlist-template1.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp0x/initlist-template1.C new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a24e205 --- /dev/null +++ b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp0x/initlist-template1.C @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +// PR c++/70824 +// { dg-do compile { target c++11 } } + +#include <initializer_list> + +constexpr +int +max(std::initializer_list<int> __l) +{ return *__l.begin(); } + +template <class Src> +void +a() { + const int v = max({1}); +}