c++/175: Re: Internal compiler error in GCC snapshot for syntactically-incorrect input

["Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

>Number:         175
>Category:       c++
>Synopsis:       Internal compiler error in GCC snapshot for syntactically-incorrect input
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          analyzed
>Class:          ice-on-illegal-code
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr 19 15:06:01 PDT 2000
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>Originator:     "James A. Bednar" <jbednar@cs.utexas.edu>
>Release:        2.95.2
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 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:40:18 -0500 (CDT)
 Original-Message-Id: <200004190440.XAA14123@mail.cs.utexas.edu>
 Reply-to: jbednar@cs.utexas.edu


 Using the current GCC Online Compiler Submission at
 http://www.codesourcery.com/gcc-compile.html on the following code
 generates an "Internal compiler error" (see attached):

   template <class T>
   void f(const T& a) { }

   T g() { return T(0); }

 Obviously, this code is syntactically incorrect, since the type T is
 undefined in g(). (I forgot to add another "template <class T>" before
 it!)  However, the compiler should handle the problem a little more
 gracefully.  The same symptoms occur with egcs-1.1.2, so the problem
 has been present at least that long.

 Also note that the error message appears to be ill-formed.

 Should this code prove useful as a test case, I hereby place it into
 the public domain for anyone to use for whatever purpose they see fit.

 Jim Bednar

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 Tue Apr 18 23:33:47 CDT 2000
 GCC Output


 These are the results of processing your source code with the following
 command:

     c++ -x c++ -c [input] 


 Exit code: 256

 Messages:

     /tmp/@21228.1:4: Internal compiler error.
     /tmp/@21228.1:4: Please submit a full bug report.
     /tmp/@21228.1:4: See 
     /tmp/@21228.1:4: for instructions.

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