[Bug c++/36203] explicit member function template lookup fails from templated function

[starlight at binnacle dot cx]

------- Comment #2 from starlight at binnacle dot cx  2008-05-10 23:41 -------
This was more of a "learning" experience than a "forgetting and 
remembering" one.  Thank you for the help.

Several template behaviors required by a strict ISO standard 
reading are miles distant from intuition.  This surely 
qualifies, especially as three major vendor compilers accept it 
without the keyword.  An improved error message from GCC would 
help immensely.  Spent several hours googling this and coming up 
dry (including a review of closed GCC bug reports) before 
reporting it.  Can't afford to read ISO 14882 from start to 
finish every time this happens.

Another example is the despicable exclusion of base template 
member names from the default scope.  Regardless of any 
"correctness," it's an nightmare to constantly insert 'this->' 
and/or 'using' constructs to overcome the behavior that 99.999% 
of the time serves no useful purpose.  A command switch separate 
from -fpermissive should exist for relaxing this one insanely 
annoying rule.  At least the error message here finally 
provides a meaningful indication regarding the cause of the
problem.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36203