Internal compiler error - Templated conversion operator in switch expression

Question

The following code crashes the Microsoft compiler:

class Var
{
public:
    template <typename T>
    operator T () const
    { }
};

int main()
{
    Var v;
    switch (v)
    { }
}

My question: Is the code correct or should the compiler give an appropriate error? Is an unambiguous conversion to an integral type possible?

Answer 1

The compiler crashing is always a bug, this code does not compile on either gcc or clang but both provide an error without crashing. For clang the error is:

error: statement requires expression of integer type ('Var' invalid)
switch (v)
^       ~

gcc provides the following error:

error: ambiguous default type conversion from 'Var'
 switch (v)
          ^

Also, note that flowing off the end of a value returning function is undefined behavior in C++.

Update

Adding:

operator int () const
{ return 0; }

to the class brings about different results from clang and gcc.

See Classes with both template and non-template conversion operators in the condition of switch statement for a discussion on whether gcc or clang is correct. My interpretation of N3323 implies clang is correct on this one.

Filed bug report

I filed a bug report for this ICE, so far no response. Even though this seems like an odd corner case it does cause an internal compiler error which should be fixed.