==== CONTENTS OF speclambda.cpp ==== template <class T> struct X { static void (* code ) (); }; template <> void (* X<int>::code ) () = [](){}; int main () { return 0; } ==================================== ==== OUTPUT OF g++-4.7 -std=c++11 ==== speclambda.cpp:4:42: error: explicit specialization of non-template ‘<lambda>’ ====================================== It succeeds if I specialize the whole struct instead of just the one member. The same error occurs if the type of 'code' is std::function<void ()>. The same error occurs during any kind of static member specialization whose initializer contains a lambda (such as an initializer that calls a constructor with a lambda as an argument). I'm not 100% certain this is valid code, but even if it is invalid, the error message is quite misleading. ==== OUTPUT OF g++-4.7 -v ==== Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++-4.7 COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-11precise2' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.7 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.7 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64 --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 4.7.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-11precise2) ==============================
The same problem exists for gcc 4.8.0 20121209 (experimental). The code looks valid to me. I tried to deduce the root of the compiler problem here. For example trying to rewrite it as typedef void (*code_t) (); template <> code_t X<double>::code = [](){}; but the error still exists.
Author: jason Date: Thu Feb 14 04:30:26 2013 New Revision: 196042 URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?root=gcc&view=rev&rev=196042 Log: PR c++/55680 * pt.c (maybe_process_partial_specialization): A lambda isn't what's being specialized. Added: trunk/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp0x/lambda/lambda-template8.C Modified: trunk/gcc/cp/ChangeLog trunk/gcc/cp/pt.c
Fixed for 4.8.0.