I was just playing around with g++ 4.7 (one of the later snapshots) with -std=c++11 enabled. I tried to compile some of my existing code base and one case that failed somewhat confuses me.
I would appreciate if someone can explain what is going on.
Here's the code:
#include <utility>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
int main ( )
{
std::string s = "abc";
// 1 ok
std::pair < std::string, int > a = std::make_pair ( s, 7 );
// 2 error on the next line
std::pair < std::string, int > b = std::make_pair < std::string, int > ( s, 7 );
// 3 ok
std::pair < std::string, int > d = std::pair < std::string, int > ( s, 7 );
return 0;
}
I understand that make_pair is meant to be used as the (1) case (if I specify the types, then I might as well use (3)), but I don't understand why it's failing in this case.
The exact error is:
test.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
test.cpp:11:83: error: no matching function for call to ‘make_pair(std::string&, int)’
test.cpp:11:83: note: candidate is:
In file included from /gcc4.7/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.0/../../../../include/c++/4.7.0/utility:72:0,
from test.cpp:1:
/gcc4.7/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.0/../../../../include/c++/4.7.0/bits/stl_pair.h:274:5:
note: template<class _T1, class _T2> constexpr std::pair<typename std::__decay_and_strip<_T1>::__type, typename std::__decay_and_strip<_T2>::__type> std::make_pair(_T1&&, _T2&&)
/gcc4.7/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.0/../../../../include/c++/4.7.0/bits/stl_pair.h:274:5:
note: template argument deduction/substitution failed:
test.cpp:11:83: note: cannot convert ‘s’ (type ‘std::string {aka std::basic_string<char>}’) to type ‘std::basic_string<char>&&’
Again, the question here is just "what's going on?" I know that I can fix the problem by removing the template specification, but I just want to know what's failing here under the covers.
- g++ 4.4 compiles this code with no problems.
- Removing -std=c++11 also compiles with code with no problems.