SDL2 OpenGL 4.2 context with 0 color bits and 0 depth bits

I've been trying to start a new SDL + GLEW + OpenGL project, and the setup has been difficult (MinGW-w64-32 on Windows 8 64-bit with an Intel i7-4700MQ CPU and NVidia GTX 745M GPU).

If I set the GL attributes to be used for context creation to use OpenGL version 4.2, the color and depth bit sizes get set to 0. However, if I request a 2.1 context (which is also the default), I can get the requested bit depths (8 bits for each color, 24 bits for depth). In either case, however, glClearColor has no effect (just a black background).

In both cases, the result of a few glGetString calls is the same- a 4.2 context, suggesting SDL's output is far from correct.

The entirety of the code can be found here, it's mostly boilerplate for a larger project for now. The relevant sections would most likely be

if(SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING) != 0) {
    std::cerr << "Error initializing SDL.\n";
    exit(1);
}

SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_ACCELERATED_VISUAL, 1);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MAJOR_VERSION, 2);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MINOR_VERSION, 1);
//SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_FLAGS, SDL_GL_CONTEXT_FORWARD_COMPATIBLE_FLAG);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_RED_SIZE, 8);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_GREEN_SIZE, 8);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_BLUE_SIZE, 8);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_ALPHA_SIZE, 8);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_DEPTH_SIZE, 24);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_DOUBLEBUFFER, 1);

SDL_Window* window = SDL_CreateWindow("RenderSystem", SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED, SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED, 640, 480, SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL|SDL_WINDOW_RESIZABLE);

if(!window) {
    std::cerr << "Window creation failed.\n";
    SDL_Quit();
    exit(2);
}

SDL_GLContext context = SDL_GL_CreateContext(window);

if(!context) {
    std::cerr << "OpenGL Context creation failed.\n";
    SDL_DestroyWindow(window);
    SDL_Quit();
    exit(3);
}

SDL_GL_MakeCurrent(window, context);

and

glClearColor(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);

SDL_Event evt;
bool run = true;

while(run) {

    SDL_PollEvent(&evt);

    switch(evt.type) {
        case SDL_KEYDOWN:
            if(evt.key.keysym.sym == SDLK_ESCAPE) {
                run = false;
            }
            break;

        case SDL_QUIT:
            run = false;
            break;
    }

    SDL_GL_SwapWindow(window);

}