http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49399
Summary: [C++0x] substitution failure error Product: gcc Version: 4.7.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: jarr...@cse.unsw.edu.au Created attachment 24515 --> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=24515 substitution failure When accessing a private member of a class in a substitution failure is not an error sort of way, the compiler reports an error. Compiling the attached code gives the following: g++ --std=c++0x value_type.cpp value_type.cpp: In function ‘int broken_fun(int, typename T::value_type*) [with T = broken, typename T::value_type = int]’: value_type.cpp:4:15: error: ‘typedef int broken::value_type’ is private value_type.cpp:14:37: error: within this context It works fine without c++0x mode, and on previous versions of gcc. output of gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++ COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/jarryd/local/gcc-4.7/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: /home/jarryd/installers/gcc-svn/configure --prefix=/home/jarryd/local/gcc-4.7 --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,go Thread model: posix gcc version 4.7.0 20110614 (experimental) (GCC)