The current definition of the C++ language speaks about nondeduced contexts only in terms of deducing template arguments from a type 13.10.3.6 [temp.deduct.type] paragraph 4. Those cases, however, don't seem to be the only ones when template argument deduction is not possible. The example below illustrates that:
namespace A { enum ae { }; template<class R, class A> int foo(ae, R(*)(A)) { return 1; } } template<typename T> void tfoo(T) { } template<typename T> int tfoo(T) { return 1; } /*int tfoo(int) { return 1; }*/ int main() { A::ae a; foo(a, &tfoo); }
Here argument-dependent name lookup finds the function template 'A::foo' as a candidate function. None of the function template's function parameter types constitutes a nondeduced context as per 13.10.3.6 [temp.deduct.type] paragraph 4. And yet, quite clearly, argument deduction is not possible in this context. Furthermore it is not clear what a conforming implementation shall do when the definition of the non-template function '::tfoo' is uncommented.