diff --git a/Eigen/src/SVD/SVD.h b/Eigen/src/SVD/SVD.h
index d117c1583..da43cc9ca 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/SVD/SVD.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/SVD/SVD.h
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ template<typename MatrixType> class SVD
 
   public:
 
+    SVD() {} // a user who relied on compiler-generated default compiler reported problems with MSVC in 2.0.7
+    
     SVD(const MatrixType& matrix)
       : m_matU(matrix.rows(), std::min(matrix.rows(), matrix.cols())),
         m_matV(matrix.cols(),matrix.cols()),
@@ -108,6 +110,7 @@ void SVD<MatrixType>::compute(const MatrixType& matrix)
   const int n = matrix.cols();
   const int nu = std::min(m,n);
   ei_assert(m>=n && "In Eigen 2.0, SVD only works for MxN matrices with M>=N. Sorry!");
+  ei_assert(m>1 && "In Eigen 2.0, SVD doesn't work on 1x1 matrices");
 
   m_matU.resize(m, nu);
   m_matU.setZero();
diff --git a/test/svd.cpp b/test/svd.cpp
index 688c3f402..3158782d8 100644
--- a/test/svd.cpp
+++ b/test/svd.cpp
@@ -95,5 +95,8 @@ void test_svd()
     // complex are not implemented yet
 //     CALL_SUBTEST( svd(MatrixXcd(6,6)) );
 //     CALL_SUBTEST( svd(MatrixXcf(3,3)) );
+    SVD<MatrixXf> s;
+    MatrixXf m = MatrixXf::Random(10,1);
+    s.compute(m);
   }
 }