https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77528
--- Comment #5 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to jerryct from comment #4) > Thus a constructor like libcxx has: > _LIBCPP_INLINE_VISIBILITY > stack() > _NOEXCEPT_(is_nothrow_default_constructible<container_type>::value) > : c() {} > > would solve two problems: > - reduce the number of allocations > - make container adapaters usable for rather big containers. That introduces a different problem though. This won't compile with libc++: #include <stack> struct D : std::deque<int> { D(int) { } }; template class std::stack<int, D>; That compiles fine with libstdc++ and we want to preserve that property.