EGCS 1.1a: unreasonable/incorrect casting restriction

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> Mark Mitchell <mark@markmitchell.com> writes:

 Jason> Sorry, I didn't read your mail closely enough.  This is
 Jason> indeed a bug.

 > No, it's not.  (Except that we should give a better error message.)  A
 > non-type template arguments must be:

 >   --the address of an object or function with external linkage,  includ-
 >     ing  function templates and function template-ids but excluding non-
 >     static class members, expressed as & id-expression where  the  &  is
 >     optional if the name refers to a function or array; or

 > There's no casting allowed.

That seems unnecessarily restrictive, but right you are.

Jason