Deleted constructors participate in overload resolution (Are the special member functions always declared?); this is necessary so that one can use deleted constructors to prevent conversions (excerpted from 8.4.3p3):
struct onlydouble {
onlydouble(std::intmax_t) = delete;
onlydouble(double);
};
Enforcement of function deletion comes very late in the compilation process, after overload resolution (8.4.3p2) and so overload resolution cannot distinguish between constructors on the basis of deletion. gcc is correct and clang and VC11 are incorrect.
Note that the ambiguity is in the function call expression func(x)
, where the argument x
is an lvalue of type int
and the id func
denotes an overload set with parameter types in the first (only) parameter of const Test<int> &
and const Test<double> &
; the available conversion sequences then are:
int
lvalue; int &
; Test<int>
temporary; const Test<int> &
,
int
lvalue; int
rvalue; double
rvalue; double &&
; Test<double>
temporary; const Test<double> &
.
The two sequences are user-defined conversion sequences of equal rank, and so are ambiguous. The fact that the constructor Test<double>::Test(double &&)
is deleted is irrelevant at this stage.