https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50445
Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |WAITING Last reconfirmed| |2017-08-18 CC| |egallager at gcc dot gnu.org Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> --- The error message is now: $ /usr/local/bin/g++ -c -Wall -Wextra -pedantic 50445.cc 50445.cc: In instantiation of ‘const int X<(& values)>::val0’: 50445.cc:7:22: required from here 50445.cc:4:19: error: the value of ‘values’ is not usable in a constant expression static int const val0 = values[0]; ^~~~ 50445.cc:1:18: note: ‘values’ was not declared ‘constexpr’ extern int const values[] = { 1, 2, 3 }; ^~~~~~ 50445.cc:7:26: error: size of array ‘array’ is not an integral constant-expression int array[X<values>::val0]; ^ $ ...which I think clears things up. Although maybe the note saying 'values' was not declared 'constexpr' could have a fix-it hint added to it showing where to insert the 'constexpr'? Putting in WAITING to see what the reporter thinks.