The following was reported as a bug through the Debian bugtracking system ( http://www.debian.org/ ). Please Cc: 21255@bugs.debian.org on on-topic replies. This is a reposting of http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs-bugs/1998-Jun/0636.html . The egcs prelease 1.1.1 and the current g++2.92.21 show the same behaviour.