Template bug in gcc 2.95 and 2.95.1?

[Radu Cornea <radu at ics dot uci dot edu>]

Hi!
I installed gcc 2.95 over egcs 1.1.2 and now some programs do not compile
well. The error I get is from a portion of code that looks like this:

template<class T>
class Test {
};

class Obj{
};

template class Test <Obj const *>;
template class Test <const Obj *>;

When compiling with egcs 1.1.2, everithing is fine. Using gcc 2.95 or
2.95.1, I get this error:

test.cpp:10: duplicate explicit instantiation of `class Test<const Obj *>'
Exit 1

I also tried the Sun C++ compiler and it gives no error.
Is this a bug of gcc? Those two declarations should be different, from my
opinion, but I am not sure.
I am using gcc 2.95.1 on a Sun UltraSparc 5 with Solaris 2.5.

Thanks,

Radu Cornea.


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Radu Cornea
Graduate Student
Information & Computer Science
University of California - Irvine
E-mail: radu@ics.uci.edu