static member template bug

[Ewgenij Gawrilow]

The following program:

// ================================================
// stat.cc
#ifndef STATIC
#define STATIC static
#define CONST
#else
#define CONST const
#endif

template <class E>
class a {
private:
   E data;

   template <class F>
   STATIC void sf(const E* e, const F* f) CONST
   { }
public:
   a(E d) : data(d) { }

   template <class F>
   void f(const F* f) const
   {
      sf(&data,f);
   }
};

int main()
{
   a<int> a1(1);
   double d=2;
   a1.f(&d);
}
// ================================================

compiled with:

g++ -Wall -o stat stat.cc

causes an amusing error message:

stat.cc: In method `void a<int>::f(const double *) const':
stat.cc:22: argument passing to `const F *' from `const double *'

whereas a non-static version of it:

g++ -Wall -o stat stat.cc -DSTATIC=

gets compiled without problems.

I use egcs-1.0.2 on an UltraSPARC under Solaris 2.6, configured with default
options (except --prefix, what should not matter):

g++ -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/egcs/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/egcs-2.90.27/specs
gcc version egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release)

With best regards,
Ewgenij Gawrilow,
Dep. of Mathematics,
Technical University Berlin