https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86138
--- Comment #11 from Christian Franke <franke at computer dot org> --- (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #8) > You still haven't explained why declaring the specialization is bogus. The > explicit specialization is defined at > https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=libstdc%2B%2B-v3/src/c%2B%2B98/ > istream-string.cc;h=feb3569c8be48539af52b66d6462c455dfd09a47;hb=HEAD#l120 I missed that. Forget the patch. Sorry for the noise.