std 8.3.2/1 says Cv-qualified references are ill-formed except when the cv-qualifiers are introduced through the use of a typedef (7.1.3) or of a template type argument (14.3), in which case the cv-qualifiers are ignored following code is tested at GCC 4.5.0. template <typename T> void fun(const T&t); void foo(); void Test() { fun(foo); } It seems that, fun should be resolved as void (void (&)()), as const is ignore here. However, if I try to link this problem, the link complains: test.cpp:(.text+0x1c): undefined reference to `void fun<void ()()>(void ( const&)())' Why the fun here is resolved as void fun<void()()>(void ( const &)()) rather than void fun<void()()>(void ( &)()) ? Thanks.