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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - Odd "argument deduction not allowed in function return type" when initializing static data member"
   href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47383">47383</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Odd "argument deduction not allowed in function return type" when initializing static data member
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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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
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>-New Bugs
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>stephan.bergmann.secondary@googlemail.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>htmldeveloper@gmail.com, llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org, neeilans@live.com, richard-llvm@metafoo.co.uk
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        <pre>At least with recent Clang 12 trunk and with clang-10.0.0-2.fc32.x86_64:

<span class="quote">> $ cat test.cc
> template<int N> struct S1 { constexpr S1(char const (&)[N]) {} };
> struct S2 { static constexpr S1 s(""); };</span >

<span class="quote">> $ clang++ -std=c++17 -fsyntax-only test.cc
> test.cc:2:35: error: expected parameter declarator
> struct S2 { static constexpr S1 s(""); };
>                                   ^
> test.cc:2:35: error: expected ')'
> test.cc:2:34: note: to match this '('
> struct S2 { static constexpr S1 s(""); };
>                                  ^
> test.cc:2:30: error: use of class template 'S1' requires template arguments; argument deduction not allowed in function return type
> struct S2 { static constexpr S1 s(""); };
>                              ^~
> test.cc:1:24: note: template is declared here
> template<int N> struct S1 { constexpr S1(char const (&)[N]) {} };
>                        ^
> 3 errors generated.</span >

Compilation succeeds when replacing the complete second line with either

<span class="quote">> struct S2 { static constexpr S1 s = ""; };</span >

or

<span class="quote">> static constexpr S1 s("");</span ></pre>
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