https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115939
Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last reconfirmed| |2024-07-15 Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- I think this is the expected (no pun intended) behaviour. It's a consequence of std::any being constructible from anything, so the operator== for expected<T,E> is a candidate for ... well ... anything. Your std::expected<std::any, Y> can be constructed from nearly every possible type, so the equality comparison considers a conversion to std::expected<std::any, Y> to be viable, and then use the operator== for std::expected. It doesn't help that the operator== is a hidden friend, so only found by ADL, because your unordered_map::iterator has std::expected<std::any,Y> as an associated class, so the hidden friend is a candidate. The way libstdc++ defines the equality operator for unordered_map::iterator also involves conversions, from unordered_map::iterator to its _Node_iterator_base base class, so the C++ standard considers them ambiguous. Without -pedantic GCC does the right thing. I see two possible solutions to this, but neither of them is possible for you. Firstly, I have a C++ standard proposal to constrain operator==(expected<T,E>, U), so that it will not be viable if std::expected<T,E> is not equality comparable with U (which ti isn't in this case, because U is the unordered_map::iterator). Secondly, we could add operator== for the actual iterator type, so that there's no derived-to-base conversion needed to find a candidate. I think the only workarounds available to you are to not use -pedantic, and to not use std::any in this way, where it greedily converts from anything.