The code below builds fine with any version of GCC 4.x

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#include <iostream>

void Test(std::ostream &stream) {
        stream << "Hello, World!" << std::endl;
}

int main() {
        Test(std::cout);
        return 0;
}
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But
GCC 4.2.1, 4.4.0, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3 refuse to build the below code while VC++10, VC++11 and both CLANG 3.0 and 3.1 are building it without any issue or warning.

[ I got it from here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8629382/debug-macro-for-c-with-variable-arguments-without-the-format-string ]

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

class VariadicToOutputStream
{
public:
    VariadicToOutputStream(std::ostream& s, const std::string& separator = " ") : m_stream(s), m_hasEntries(false), m_separator(separator) {}
    template<typename ObjectType>
    VariadicToOutputStream& operator , (const ObjectType& v)
    {
        if (m_hasEntries) m_stream << m_separator;
        m_stream << v;
        m_hasEntries=true;
        return *this;
    }
    ~VariadicToOutputStream()
    {
        m_stream << std::endl;
    }

private:
    std::ostream& m_stream;
    bool m_hasEntries;
    std::string m_separator;
};

#define VARIADIC_TO_STDOUT(...)    \
    VariadicToOutputStream(std::cout),__VA_ARGS__;

int main() {
	VARIADIC_TO_STDOUT(1, 0.5f, "a string");
	return 0;
}
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The error produced by GCC:
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main.cpp: In function 'int main()':
main.cpp:31:2: error: invalid use of qualified-name 'std::cout'
main.cpp:31:2: error: expected unqualified-id before numeric constant
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Versions of GCC that I've used:
g++ (GCC) 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD]
g++46 (FreeBSD Ports Collection) 4.6.4 20120928 (prerelease)
g++47 (FreeBSD Ports Collection) 4.7.3 20120929 (prerelease)
MinGW g++ (GCC) 4.4.0