"redefinition" of template default argument causes error on egcs 1.1b (no error on 2.8.1)

[Alexandre Oliva]

Corey Kosak <kosak@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> template<typename T=int> struct cow; //forward declaration
> #ifdef BUG
>   template<typename T=int> struct cow { T data; };
> #endif

Good to know you mark and #ifdef out BUGs so clearly in your code :-)

The C++ Standard does not allow duplicate declaration of default
arguments.  [temp.param]/12 explicitly forbids this.

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Alexandre Oliva
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