crash when friend function defines template specialization

[Alexandre Oliva]

Ian Haggard writes:

> I was able to further refine my example program.  The following (even smaller)
> program gives me an internal compiler error:

It doesn't with the latest snapshot of egcs.  However, this code is
ill-formed, as of the C++ Standard (Dec'97) [temp.expl.spec]

20An  explicit specialization declaration shall not be a friend declara-
  tion.

Although your code does not use the appropriate syntax for an explicit
specialization, it is one, and egcs accepts that as an extension for
backward compatibility.

The template function must be defined outside the template class
body.

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Alexandre Oliva
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