Implicit conversion error using g++

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  9, 2001, Daniel.Walker@lhsl.com wrote:

> With copy-initialization the target object is always initialized
> with the copy-constructor.

Actually, the compiler is allowed to omit the construction of the
temporary and the copy construction, but it must still check whether
the copy-constructor exists and is accessible.

> So, it had
> better be able to get a temporary to copy from in one conversion (my
> example required two conversion; a cast and then a constructor, so it was
> ill-formed

Right.

> With direct-initialization any constructor may be used (in my
> example, gcc found the cast operator to Foo and matched that to a
> constructor from Foo.)

Yup.

> Does the standard give implementers leeway with how many can
> be involved in an implicit conversion or is this set in stone?

It's set in stone.  A user-defined conversion sequence is formed by a
standard conversion sequence, followed by a user-defined conversion
followed by a second standard conversion sequence.  [over.ics.user]/1

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