https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63924
Jason Merrill <jason at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |ASSIGNED Last reconfirmed| |2014-11-19 CC| |jason at gcc dot gnu.org Assignee|unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org |jason at gcc dot gnu.org Target Milestone|--- |5.0 Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #2 from Jason Merrill <jason at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > constexpr auto size3 (test t) { return require_constexpr< size0(t) >::value; } The problem here is that 't' is non-constant within size3 and the implicit trivial copy constructor does a bitwise copy, which involves copying a (non-constant) byte of padding, whereas your user-provided copy constructor doesn't copy anything. This seems like a grey area in the standard, but I'll go ahead and make it work for now.