Why does GCC need extra declarations in templates when VS does not?

GCC is right in this case, and Visual Studio mistakenly accepts a malformed program. Have a look at the section on Name lookup in the GCC manual. Paraphrasing.

The issue is not with gcc but with Visual Studio, which accepts code that is not conform to the C++ standard.

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