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    <body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:richard-llvm@metafoo.co.uk" title="Richard Smith <richard-llvm@metafoo.co.uk>"> <span class="fn">Richard Smith</span></a>
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   title="RESOLVED INVALID - constexpr variable template requires default initialization even though it's not instantiated"
   href="http://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32115">bug 32115</a>
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   title="RESOLVED INVALID - constexpr variable template requires default initialization even though it's not instantiated"
   href="http://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32115#c2">Comment # 2</a>
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   href="http://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32115">bug 32115</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:richard-llvm@metafoo.co.uk" title="Richard Smith <richard-llvm@metafoo.co.uk>"> <span class="fn">Richard Smith</span></a>
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        <pre>[temp.res]p8: "The program is ill-formed, no diagnostic required, if [...] no
valid specialization can be generated for a template and the template is not
instantiated."

<span class="quote">> that would be consistent with a constexpr function for example that
> can remain undefined unless it's actually used.</span >

Clang rejects this case too, for the same reason:

template<typename T> constexpr void f() {
  const int n;
}

<span class="quote">> Eventually, I'm looking to specialize the tag for different type and
> letting the compile catch any untagged types.</span >

This only triggers a warning (and a link error), but here's a valid way to get
something like what you want:

template<typename T> extern int kTag;
template<> constexpr int kTag<int> = 0;</pre>
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