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What am I doing wrong when I try to execute std::pow(1.0i, 2)? Is it my understanding of user-defined literal operator""i, or is it how I use the complex pow-overload?

The last line shows an error when compiling with g++-6.2 or g++-5:

#include <iostream>
#include <complex>
using std::cout; using std::complex;
int main() {
    complex<double> z1 (0, 1);
    complex<double> z2 = std::pow(z1, 2);
    using namespace std::complex_literals;
    complex<double> z3 = std::pow(1.0i, 2); // <<< error
}

The message is:

error: no matching function for call to ‘pow(__complex__ double, int)’
     complex<double> z3 = std::pow(1.0i, 2)

If I leave out the last line, all is fine.

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