Internal compiler error on rare kind of name clash.

Benjamin Scarlet scarlet@ctpmspiggy.mit.edu
Tue May 18 06:50:00 GMT 1999


I just came across this internal compiler error:

if foo.cc contains only (no includes hence no difference after
preprocessing).
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template <class X> class set {};

class A 
{
public:
  void set() {}
};

template <class T> void f(A &a, const T &t) { a.set(); }

void bar()
{
  A a;
  f(a,3);
}
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fed through 'g++ -v -c foo.cc -o foo.o' yields

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Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/cpp -lang-c++ -v -undef -D__GNUC__=2 -D__GNUG__=2 -D__cplusplus -D__GNUC_MINOR__=91 -D__ELF__ -Dunix -Di386 -D__i386__ -Dlinux -D__ELF__ -D__unix__ -D__i386__ -D__i386__ -D__linux__ -D__unix -D__i386 -D__linux -Asystem(posix) -D__EXCEPTIONS -Asystem(unix) -Acpu(i386) -Amachine(i386) -Di386 -D__i386 -D__i386__ foo.cc /tmp/ccIiLce2.ii
GNU CPP version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release) (i386 Linux/ELF)
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /home/scarlet/include
 /usr/include/g++-2
 /usr/local/include
 /usr/i386-redhat-linux/include
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/include
 /usr/include
End of search list.
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/cc1plus /tmp/ccIiLce2.ii -quiet -dumpbase foo.cc -version -o /tmp/ccWSjK1Y.s
GNU C++ version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release) (i386-redhat-linux) compiled by GNU C version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release).
foo.cc: In function `void f<int>(class A &, const int &)':
foo.cc:14:   instantiated from here
foo.cc:9: Internal compiler error.
foo.cc:9: Please submit a full bug report to `egcs-bugs@egcs.cygnus.com'.
foo.cc:9: See <URL: http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html#bugreport > for details.
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	Ben Scarlet
	scarlet@mit.edu




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