Feature or bug: implicit cast from false to 0

Observe this code (VC7.1):

void Test(const char*)
{
}

int main(void)
{
  Test( false ); // OK
  Test( true );  // error C2664: cannot convert from bool to const char*
}

Shouldn't the first call also produce the compiler error?
.

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