ICE by template friend declaration within namespace

[Ewgenij Gawrilow]

The gcc 2.95.2 fails to compile the following fragment of code:

#line 1 "prob11.cc"
namespace N {
   template <class T> class C {
      template <class T1> friend class C;
   private:
      int p;
   public:
      template <class T1>
      C& operator=(const C<T1>& c) { p=c.p; return *this; }
   };
};


prob11.cc:3: Internal compiler error.

Changing C to N::C in the line 3 prolongs the compiler's life only till the end
of the class definition:

prob11.cc:9: Internal compiler error.

The same class definition put in the global space compiles fine.

With best regards,
Ewgenij Gawrilow
Dept. of Mathematics, Technical University of Berlin