Does somebody know, why this compiles??

template< typename TBufferTypeFront, typename TBufferTypeBack = TBufferTypeFront>
class FrontBackBuffer{

public:


  FrontBackBuffer(
    const TBufferTypeFront  front, 
    const TBufferTypeBack back):    ////const reference  assigned to reference???
     m_Front(front),
     m_Back(back)
  {
  };

  ~FrontBackBuffer()
  {};

  TBufferTypeFront m_Front;       ///< The front buffer
  TBufferTypeBack m_Back;         ///< The back buffer

};

int main(){
    int b;
    int a;
    FrontBackBuffer<int&,int&> buffer(a,b); //
    buffer.m_Back = 33;
    buffer.m_Front = 55;
}

I compile with GCC 4.4. Why does it even let me compile this? Shouldn't there be an error that I cannot assign a const reference to a non-const reference?