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std::auto_ptr crashes on assignment with VC8.0

#include <memory>

class X
{
public:
   double d_;
};

std::auto_ptr<X> px = new X;     // shouldn't compile at all

• gcc 3.3.5: doesn't compile - ok
• VC8.0: does compile, but crashes when px is accessed or destructed. Reason: During the assignment new X is implicitly converted to an auto_ptr_ref which accecpts a void* in its constructor. But std::auto_ptr_ref expects a std::auto_ptr<X>** instead of a X*. So, treating X* like it was a std::auto_ptr<X>** is unlikely to yield pretty results.

There is a related discussion on comp.lang.c++. There is also a related discussion in a MSDN-forum but it's more noise than signal.