I am puzzled about this C++ code:
template <class T>
struct Foo {
T value;
};
int main() {
return Foo<int>(0).value;
// Below code works as well in gcc
// return Foo(0).value;
}
It compiles with GCC 10 in C++20 standard (but not in C++17 standard) and latest MSVC, but not with clang 13 or 14, even in C++20.
According to the standard (from cppreference) it should be possible to instantiate Foo
at least when specifying the templated type.
Why is this related to C++20 ? I see nothing that change in the template deduction specification (I maybe missed something).
Also (this is strange), GCC in C++20 mode even compiles when we call Foo
without specifying templated type (Foo(0)
).
godbolt link here
It compiles with GCC 10 in C++20 standard (but not in C++17 standard) and latest MSVC.
This is because GCC 10 and the latest MSVC implement allow initializing aggregates from a parenthesized list of values, which allows us to use parentheses to initialize aggregates.
Also (this is strange), GCC in C++20 mode even compiles when we call Foo without specifying templated type (
Foo(0)
).
This is because GCC 10 implements class template argument deduction for aggregates, which makes T
automatically deduced to int
.
Please note that clang does not currently implement these two C++20 features, so your code cannot be accepted by clang.
You can refer to cppreference to get the current compiler's support for C++20 features.