egcs-1.0.1 confused by explicit cast

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> Richard Hadsell <hadsell@blueskystudios.com> writes:

> Jason Merrill wrote:
>> 
>> The problem is that an explicit cast is treated as an explicit constructor
>> call, not a conversion.  g++ is correct.

> Sorry, I can't accept that.  Please confirm your interpretation with the
> standard.

  5.2.9  Static cast                                  [expr.static.cast]

2 An expression e can be explicitly  converted  to  a  type  T  using  a
  static_cast  of the form static_cast<T>(e) if the declaration T t(e);"
  is well-formed, for some invented temporary variable  t  (_dcl.init_).
  The  effect  of  such an explicit conversion is the same as performing
  the declaration and initialization and then using the temporary  vari-
  able as the result of the conversion.

Since the above declaration is a direct-initialization, and so the
candidates are the constructors of T, the same is true of a cast.  The cast
notation does not have different semantics.

Jason