http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49266

Jason Merrill <jason at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE

--- Comment #2 from Jason Merrill <jason at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-06-04 
23:42:03 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks Marc. I guess we need a definitive word here about whether these are 
> c++
> front issues or unavoidable problems caused by the implementation of the 
> traits
> via sfinae.

This definitely is not a front end bug.

> In the latter case we have unfortunately to be prepared to revert
> all the noexcept work involving traits until we get front-end support. Very
> sad, of course: personally, I didn't think sfinae-based techniques had serious
> limitations besides access-control. Would be something worth popularizing, can
> affect a lot of sfinae uses outside the library too, of course.

I don't think this is a sfinae vs intrinsic traits issue; intrinsic traits
would do basically the same thing.  It's an issue of involving traits/sfinae in
function signatures so that we trigger more instantiations when considering a
function during overload resolution rather than later, when the function is
instantiated.  The idea about deferring instantiation of exception-specifiers
seems likely to address this for noexcept specifically, but there might be
similar issues caused by increased use of sfinae for selecting between
overloads.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 49107 ***

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