2.95.2/Linux internal compiler error on assert(!template_fn<...>(...))

[Jonathan Thornburg]

In message <199911211542.QAA29833@mach.thp.univie.ac.at>
(dated 21 Nov 1999), available on the gcc-bugs mailing list archives at
   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/1999-11/msg00654.html
I reported that

| On a Red Hat GNU/Linux 6.0 i586 system, gcc 2.95.2 gives an internal
| compiler error on the C++ source code line
| 
|    assert(! fuzzy<fp>::EQ(fabs( mu_bar), 0.5*PI));
| 
| where   bool fuzzy<fp>::EQ(fp, fp)   is a template function,  fp  is
| a typedef for  double  , and  PI  is #defined to 3.14159... :
| 
|    % /space/try/bin/g++ -Wall -fsyntax-only -I/home/jthorn coords.cc
|    coords.cc:277: Internal compiler error.
|    coords.cc:277: Please submit a full bug report.
|    coords.cc:277: See <URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/faq.html#bugreport > for instructions.
|    %
| 
| Interestingly, on a SunOS 4.1.3 sparc v7 system, gcc 2.95.2 does *not*
| give an internal compiler error on this same code (that is, *my* code
| is the same; the system header files are of course now gcc's fixed versions
| of the SunOS ones instead of the GNU/Linux ones).  This might due to a
| platform-dependent #ifdef in my code, but I suspect it's more likely due
| to a different   assert()   macro.

Did this bug report somehow fall into a black hole?  I recieved
no followup correspondence about it, and the gcc-bugs mailing list
archive shows no followups.  Would resubmission be desirable?

Thanks 1L<<20,

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-- Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@galileo.thp.univie.ac.at>
   http://www.thp.univie.ac.at/~jthorn/home.html
   Universitaet Wien (Vienna, Austria) / Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
   "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong."
                                                            -- Norm Schryer