dubious template friend => internal error 9

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Heading <ajrh@woland.demon.co.uk> writes:

    Anthony> Hi,

    Anthony> This soi-disant "program":

    Anthony> 	class A { template <class T> friend A& f<T>(); };

    Anthony> when compiled with gcc version egcs-2.90.21 971202
    Anthony> (egcs-1.00) under Linux

    Anthony> 	c++ -c crash.c gives

    Anthony> crash.c:1: Internal compiler error 9.  crash.c:1: Please
    Anthony> submit a full bug report to `egcs-bugs@cygnus.com'.

One of the patches I posted earlier today cause the following output
instead:

supernova% test-g++ -c test.cc
test.cc:1: specialization does not match any template declaration
test.cc:1: invalid member template declaration

which is at least an improvement.
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