------- Comment #2 from igodard at pacbell dot net 2006-09-10 21:18 ------- On further checking, you can have a templated constructor and invoke it - so long as it is fully resolved by the data arguments. You only get the diagnostic when the desired template has to be explicitly qualified. The compiler knows that qualification will be required because none of the function arguments depend on the template argument, so the template argument would have to be supplied explicitly and the declaration could be flagged at once (if this is in fact illegal)
I think that the qualified invocation I reported is unambiguous, and certainly works for plain functions. But it's peculiar enough that both you and icc might have made the same mistake. Does the standard explicitly disallow this? If not then it should be accepted. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29008
