template static const initialization with return value

[Stefan Schwarzer]

The following code returns 0 to the invoking 
environment. I (and KCC and cxx and pgCC) think that
it should return 5, if the initialization is actually 
performed at some point. For non-template struct A, the initialization 
works fine and the program returns 5 as expected.

I see this behavior in 2.95.1 upward and on Linux and Tru64 
platforms (no others tried):
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17:12 castor_sts:~/bugs> g++ -v
Reading specs from /opt/gcc-2.95.3/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.3/specs
gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)
17:12 castor_sts:~/bugs> uname -a
Linux castor.ica1.uni-stuttgart.de 2.2.13 #2 Sat Dec 18 16:00:25 CET 1999 i686 unknown
17:12 castor_sts:~/bugs> uname 
Linux
17:12 castor_sts:~/bugs> g++ -Wall static.cc
17:13 castor_sts:~/bugs> a.out
17:13 castor_sts:~/bugs> echo $status
0

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template <class T>
struct A {
  static int init() { return 5; }
  static const int our_int;
};

template <class T>
const int A<T>::our_int = A<T>::init();

int main(){
  return  A<double>::our_int;
}


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