istream ctor problem, _or_ compiler problem?

[U.Mutlu]

Hi,
why is the following code not compiling?

/*
   test2.cpp

   Symptoms: mysterious compiler error in line 41 (marked as "BUG")

   Compile:
# g++ -Wall -O2 -o test2.exe test2.cpp
test2.cpp: In function ‘std::string myreader(const string&, const string&)’:
test2.cpp:41:45: error: invalid initialization of non-const reference of type ‘std::istream& {aka 
std::basic_istream<char>&}’ from an rvalue of type ‘void*’

   System:
# g++ -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=g++
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.7.1-2' 
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ 
--prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.7 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib 
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix 
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.7 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ 
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object 
--enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release 
--build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.7.1 (Debian 4.7.1-2)

# uname -a
Linux s7 3.6.0-rc5-my1 #1 SMP Wed Sep 12 19:22:44 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
*/

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <cstdio>
using namespace std;

string myreader(const string& AsFromBuf, const string& AsFromFile)
  { // reader for reading from buf -or- file, buf has precedence if both filled

    istringstream sbuf(AsFromBuf);
    ifstream      sfile; if (AsFromBuf.empty() && !AsFromFile.empty()) 
sfile.open(AsFromFile.c_str());

    // generic reader selector:
 // istream& si = sbuf;     // compiles ok
 // istream& si = sfile;    // compiles ok
    istream& si = sfile.is_open() ? sfile : sbuf;   // <--- BUG;  WHY IS THIS 
NOT COMPILING????

    // read it:
    string sRet, sLine;
    bool   fEof = false;
    while (!fEof)
      {
        getline(si, sLine), fEof = si.eof();
        sRet += sLine + "\n";
      }

    return sRet;
  }

int main()
  {
    string sBuf  = "blah foo\n";
    string sFile = "test.txt";

    //...
    const string s = myreader(sBuf, sFile);
    printf("%s\n", s.c_str());

    return 0;
  }