[Bug c++/55003] New: [C++11] Member function pointer not working as constexpr initializer

[lee.mcculler at gmail dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55003

             Bug #: 55003
           Summary: [C++11] Member function pointer not working as
                    constexpr initializer
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.7.2
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: c++
        AssignedTo: unassigned@gcc.gnu.org
        ReportedBy: lee.mcculler@gmail.com


This piece of code 

template<typename T>
struct MemberGet{
   static constexpr auto assign_operator = static_cast<T & (T::*)(const T
&)>(&T::operator=);
};

fails with this error:

error: declaration of ‘constexpr const auto
MemberGet<fpga::FPGAFilter>::assign_operator’ has no initializer

on with gcc -v:
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin/g++
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Configured with: /build/src/gcc-4.7.2/configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-bugurl=https://bugs.archlinux.org/
--enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-shared
--enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
--disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libstdcxx-pch
--enable-libstdcxx-time --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id
--with-ppl --enable-cloog-backend=isl --disable-ppl-version-check
--disable-cloog-version-check --enable-lto --enable-gold --enable-ld=default
--enable-plugin --with-plugin-ld=ld.gold --with-linker-hash-style=gnu
--enable-multilib --disable-libssp --disable-build-with-cxx
--disable-build-poststage1-with-cxx --enable-checking=release
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.7.2 (GCC)


I'm pretty certain that this code is valid C++ as it does compile in clang++
(built on top of this gcc version).