Interesting; I tried it on gcc 4.8.3 (for arm-none-eabi- target), and I did not see the problem. So it may indeed be a regression. Sorry about all the formatting issues.Here is re-posting without horrible =3D inserted everywhere: template <typename T> struct Bar { using MemberFuncT = int (T::*)(); MemberFuncT h_; constexpr Bar(MemberFuncT h) : h_{h} { } }; struct Foo { int test() { return -1; } // this causes the brace-enclosed initializer error message: static constexpr Bar<Foo> bar = Bar<Foo>(&Foo::test); // but this line does not: // static constexpr Bar<Foo> bar = Bar<Foo>(nullptr); // this line also causes the error message, unless you remove the // explict constructor in Bar. // static constexpr Bar<Foo> bar = {&Foo::test}; }; constexpr Bar<Foo> Foo::bar; // the line below does not cause any problems, either: // static constexpr Bar<Foo> bar = Bar<Foo>(&Foo::test); int main(void) { Foo f; return (f.*(Foo::bar.h_))(); } And here is gcc -v, again Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.9.1-16ubuntu6' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.9/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.9 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.9 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.9.1 (Ubuntu 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 7:35 PM, rbmj <rbmj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07-Apr-15 17:51, Bobby Moretti wrote: >> >> >> Using compiler flags -std=3Dc++11 -Wall -pedantic, this code fails to >> compile for me using gcc 4.9.1: >> > > Could this be a regression? gcc 4.8.2 accepts this code, and works as > expected. > -- Bobby Moretti bobmoretti@xxxxxxxxx