g++ 2.95.2 cannot resolve a return-type template function overload

[" " <sebor at my-Deja dot com>]

Hi,

the program below gives an error with g++ 2.95.2. I believe since the second foo<>() matches exactly it is a "better match" than the first foo<>(). The program compiles fine with edg 2.42. 

Thanks
Martin

$ cat test.cpp

template <class T, class U>
T foo (U)
{
    return T ();
}

template <class T>
T foo (int)
{
    return 1 + T ();
}


int main ()
{
    return foo<int> (0);
}

$ g++ -c --pedantic -v test.cpp
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.2/cpp -lang-c++ -v -D__GNUC__=2 -D__GNUG__=2 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=95 -D__cplusplus -Dsparc -Dsun -Dunix -D__svr4__ -D__SVR4 -D__sparc__ -D__sun__ -D__unix__ -D__svr4__ -D__SVR4 -D__sparc -D__sun -D__unix -Asystem(unix) -Asystem(svr4) -D__EXCEPTIONS -pedantic -D__GCC_NEW_VARARGS__ -Acpu(sparc) -Amachine(sparc) test.cpp /var/tmp/cc5ul2Dd.ii
GNU CPP version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) (sparc)
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.2/../../../../include/g++-3
 /usr/local/include
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.2/../../../../sparc-sun-solaris2.7/include
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.2/include
 /usr/include
End of search list.
The following default directories have been omitted from the search path:
End of omitted list.
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.2/cc1plus /var/tmp/cc5ul2Dd.ii -quiet -dumpbase test.cc -pedantic -version -o /var/tmp/cc2urzBc.s
GNU C++ version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) (sparc-sun-solaris2.7) compiled by GNU C version 2.95.2 19991024 (release).
test.cpp: In function `int main()':
test.cpp:18: call of overloaded `foo (int)' is ambiguous
test.cpp:5: candidates are: int foo<int, int>(int)
test.cpp:11:                 int foo<int>(int)
test.cpp:19: warning: control reaches end of non-void function `main()'



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