From: jonathan AT westwood DOT com (Jonathan Lanier)
Subject: BUG: Struct declarations in template funcs crash b17.1
26 Feb 1997 13:52:42 -0800
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I was able to narow down the problem I reported earlier with the internal 
compiler error.  After cutting and hacking at the preprocessed output, I 
narrowed it down to this simple test case:

template<class T> T Foo(T arg)
{
    struct
    {
        int val1;
    } watch_me_blow_up;
}

This crashes the compiler.  Although the code is useless, it illustrates 
that the act of even declaring a new type of struct or class inside a 
template function will cause the error to occur.  All you have to do is 
type the above into a file called test.cpp and type GCC TEST.CPP and 
watch the fireworks.

Any comments, anyone?

- Jonathan Lanier
  jonathan AT westwood DOT com

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