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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW --- - Template ambiguous operator overload - with tescase"
   href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=18072">18072</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Template ambiguous operator overload - with tescase
          </td>
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
          </td>
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>C++
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>hal.ashburner@gmail.com
          </td>
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>dgregor@apple.com, llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>clang++-3.4 exhibiting different behaviour to g++4.7 and clang++-3.3
Is it a bug? Is it a feature? 

Exception class with an overloaded output operator.
struct with an overloaded output operator.
Throw the exception using an overload to set its error message with the struct
in the message. The attached code should hopefully make it clear what is
intended.

It's some pretty deep template rules perhaps? Please do note the commented out
line in "do thing" that uses the same templates and compiles and runs as
expected. I can't see why the two invocations of the exception overload
operator should be treated differently but maybe there is deep
language-standardism that makes it all standards compliant and bug free(tm).
Anyway, thought you guys would like it boiled down to the smallest case I could
manage that you can just compile.
All the best.

Details:
most recent llvm-3.4 from here:
deb <a href="http://llvm.org/apt/raring/">http://llvm.org/apt/raring/</a> llvm-toolchain-raring main
deb-src <a href="http://llvm.org/apt/raring/">http://llvm.org/apt/raring/</a> llvm-toolchain-raring main

$ clang -v
Ubuntu clang version 3.4-1~exp1 (trunk) (based on LLVM 3.4)
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.4
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7.3
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.4
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7.3
Selected GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7

compiler invocations:

$ clang++ -std=c++11 -Wall -g exception_op_overlad.cpp -o test-clang-3.4
$ g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -g exception_op_overlad.cpp -o test-g++4.7

compiler error seen:
clang++ -std=c++11 -Wall -g exception.cpp -o exception
exception.cpp:58:40: error: use of overloaded operator '<<' is ambiguous (with
      operand types 'exception' and 'thing_t')
     throw exception() << "some text " << th; // ok g++ 4.7, clang-3.3 f...
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^  ~~
exception.cpp:32:16: note: candidate function [with T = thing_t]
    exception& operator<<(T const& v)
               ^
exception.cpp:48:5: note: candidate function [with OS = exception]
OS& operator<<(OS& oss, const thing_t& t)
    ^
1 error generated.
make: *** [exception] Error 1


source:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <exception>
#include <sstream>

#define DUMP(x) std::cout << #x << " is " << x << std::endl

class exception : public std::exception
{
public:
    exception()
        : std::exception()
    {}

    exception(const exception &rhs)
        : std::exception(rhs)
    {
        errmsg.str(rhs.errmsg.str());
    }


    virtual ~exception() throw()
    {}

    virtual const char* what() const throw()
    {
        return errmsg.str().c_str();
    }


    template<typename T>
    exception& operator<<(T const& v)
    {
        this->errmsg << v;
        return *this;
    }

private:
    std::ostringstream errmsg;
};

struct thing_t
{
    int a;
};

template<typename OS>
OS& operator<<(OS& oss, const thing_t& t)
{
    oss << "thing is: " << t.a;
    return oss;
}


void do_thing(thing_t& th)
{
    // throw exception() << th; //ok all clang++-3.3 clag-3.4 g++4.7
     throw exception() << "some text " << th; // ok g++ 4.7, ok clang++-3.3
fails to compile on clang++-3.4
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    thing_t the_thing;
    the_thing.a = 8;

    try
    {
        do_thing(the_thing);
    }
    catch(exception& e)
    {
        std::cout << "e.what()" << " is " << e.what() << std::endl;
    }

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