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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - Two type that are not reference-related can further converted in reference initialization"
   href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51763">51763</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Two type that are not reference-related can further converted in reference initialization
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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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>C++2a
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>xmh970252187@gmail.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>blitzrakete@gmail.com, erik.pilkington@gmail.com, llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org, richard-llvm@metafoo.co.uk
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        <pre>char cc;
struct A{
    operator char&(){
        return cc;
    }
};
int main(){
   A a;
   int&& rf = a;
}

Clang rejects this example while GCC accepts it. GCC has a correct
interpretation for this example, since [dcl.init.ref#5.4.1] make `A::operator
char&()` be a candidate to convert the original initializer expression `a`,
which brings it to type `char`, as per [dcl.init.ref#5.4.1]    

<span class="quote">> The result of the call to the conversion function, as described for the non-reference copy-initialization, is then used to direct-initialize the reference. For this direct-initialization, user-defined conversions are not considered.  </span >

It means the effect would be the same as that `int&& rf(a.operator char&())`,
since their types are not reference-related, [dcl.init.ref#5.4.2] can apply to
it to do the further conversion, which converts the result of `a.operator
char&()` to type `T`, no user-defined conversion is applied, hence the whole
reference initialization would like to be that `int&&
rf(static_cast<int>(a.operator char&()))`.</pre>
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