Apparant C++ bug in gcc 2.95.2 and latest egcs snapshot

[Nicholas Vinen]

	OK, code is included. If this isn't a bug, it's definately
strange.

	Compile the program. It compiles fine.
	Now try compiling with -fno-default-inline. It compiles but fails
to link. If you add "inline" to that friend operator definition on line
50, it works.

	It seems to me, it shouldn't matter if a function is declared
inline or not whether the code links...  I don't know why the person that
wrote this code declared the operator that way but it seems to work under
all circumstances but this with this and other compilers. For now I'll
declare it inline, hopefully you can work out why it's doing this so I
don't have to.

		Nicholas Vinen

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