Clang and GCC disagree in auto specifier for non-type template parameter in a casting C++17

Question

I basically have a class that depends on a non-type template parameter. I defined a casting so an object of non-type template parameter N can convert to another of

Answer 1

This is a clang bug. Here's a short reproduction:

template 
struct X {
    template 
    X foo();
};

template 
template 
X X::foo() {
    return {};
}

If auto B is replaced by int B, clang accepts it. gcc accepts it as-is. For clang, this is only a problem with the nested template declarations. There's nothing about auto as a placeholder template non-type parameter that would prevent it from being used to define something out-of-line.

While filing a new clang bug, I found 35655, with an even shorter reproduction:

template
struct S {
    template
    static void f() {
        +n;
    }
};

which fails with:

source.cpp:5:3: error: invalid argument type 'auto' to unary expression
                +n;