diff --git a/Eigen/src/Sparse/SparseView.h b/Eigen/src/Sparse/SparseView.h
index 3b656d5c8..5a152b255 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Sparse/SparseView.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Sparse/SparseView.h
@@ -31,18 +31,23 @@ struct ei_traits<SparseView<MatrixType> > : ei_traits<MatrixType>
 {
   typedef int Index;
   typedef Sparse StorageKind;
+  enum {
+    Flags = int(ei_traits<MatrixType>::Flags) & (RowMajorBit)
+  };
 };
 
 template<typename MatrixType>
 class SparseView : public SparseMatrixBase<SparseView<MatrixType> >
 {
   typedef typename MatrixType::Nested MatrixTypeNested;
+  typedef typename ei_cleantype<MatrixTypeNested>::type _MatrixTypeNested;
 public:
   EIGEN_SPARSE_PUBLIC_INTERFACE(SparseView)
 
   SparseView(const MatrixType& mat, const Scalar& m_reference = Scalar(0),
              typename NumTraits<Scalar>::Real m_epsilon = NumTraits<Scalar>::dummy_precision()) : 
     m_matrix(mat), m_reference(m_reference), m_epsilon(m_epsilon) {}
+
   class InnerIterator;
 
   inline Index rows() const { return m_matrix.rows(); }
@@ -58,10 +63,10 @@ protected:
 };
 
 template<typename MatrixType>
-class SparseView<MatrixType>::InnerIterator : public MatrixTypeNested::InnerIterator
+class SparseView<MatrixType>::InnerIterator : public _MatrixTypeNested::InnerIterator
 {
 public:
-  typedef typename MatrixTypeNested::InnerIterator IterBase;
+  typedef typename _MatrixTypeNested::InnerIterator IterBase;
   InnerIterator(const SparseView& view, Index outer) :
   IterBase(view.m_matrix, outer), m_view(view)
   {
diff --git a/test/sparse_basic.cpp b/test/sparse_basic.cpp
index 3ebd59294..8c93909c6 100644
--- a/test/sparse_basic.cpp
+++ b/test/sparse_basic.cpp
@@ -250,6 +250,13 @@ template<typename SparseMatrixType> void sparse_basic(const SparseMatrixType& re
     VERIFY(countTrueNonZero==m2.nonZeros());
     VERIFY_IS_APPROX(m2, refM2);
   }
+  
+  // test sparseView
+  {
+    DenseMatrix refMat2 = DenseMatrix::Zero(rows, rows);
+    SparseMatrixType m2(rows, rows);
+    VERIFY_IS_APPROX(m2.eval(), refMat2.sparseView().eval());
+  }
 }
 
 void test_sparse_basic()