Hi,

This is the simplest possible repro I could get:

#include <boost/variant.hpp>

class A {};

class B : private A {};

typedef boost::variant<A, B> variant_t;

int main()

{

B b;

variant_t v (b);

}

This used to work with Boost 1.59.0 but fails with 1.64.0

Using wandbox I've found that:

- it started failing in 1.62.0

- clang does not have this problem

- newer and older versions of gcc do have the same problem

The error is miles long. I think the important parts are:

boost/type_traits/is_convertible.hpp:149:53: error: 'A' is an inaccessible base of 'B'

error: no matching function for call to 'boost::variant<A, B>::variant(B&)'

It seems the metaprogramming messes up due to the private inheritance, and decides that the variant<A,B> is *not* constructible from B

Workarounds are very welcome!

Switching to C++14 is not an option (yet).

Regards