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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - Partial specialization halfway accepted after instantiation"
   href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38234">38234</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Partial specialization halfway accepted after instantiation
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
          </td>
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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>enhancement
          </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>zhonghao@pku.org.cn
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        <tr>
          <th>CC</th>
          <td>dgregor@apple.com, llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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        <pre>The following code produces predictable but odd output. The compiler should
either generate a warning for this case or throw away the instantiation of the
type upon encountering the better-matching partial specialization, somehow
keeping it for code above the given line.


template <typename T>
struct A {
        T o;
};

int sizeofa = sizeof(A<int *>);

template <typename T>
struct A<T *> {
        T o[5];
};

int newsizeofa = sizeof(A<int *>);

int main() {
        printf("%d, %d, %d\n", sizeofa, sizeof(A<int *>), sizeof(A<double *>));
}


The given output is 8, 8, 40. It appears that the specialization is accepted
for any type not yet instantiated.

I tried g++. It produces an error message:

code1.cpp:12:8: error: partial specialization of 'struct A<T*>' after
instantiation of 'struct A<int*>' [-fpermissive]
 struct A<T *> {
        ^~~~~~

A simpler testcase:

template <class T> struct A { };
A<int*> a;
template <class T> struct A<T*> { }; // { dg-error "A<int *>" }</pre>
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