c++/2197: "error before '$'", but no '$' in compilation unit

[schmid@snake.iap.physik.tu-darmstadt.de]

>Number:         2197
>Category:       c++
>Synopsis:       "error before '$'", but no '$' in compilation unit
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 06 10:46:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Schmid
>Release:        3.1 20010304 (experimental)
>Organization:
TU Darmstadt
>Environment:
System: Linux kiste 2.4.2 #34 Sun Feb 25 20:03:34 CET 2001 i686 unknown
Architecture: i686
SuSE 7.1	
GLIBC 2.2
GNU ld version 2.10.91 (with BFD 2.10.1.0.4)
host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
build: i686-pc-linux-gnu
target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configured with: ../gcc/configure --enable-shared --disable-nls --enable-threads=posix --enable-long-long
>Description:
The following illegal code generates a "parse error before '$'"
message. But there is no '$' in the source file or in the
preprocessed source code.

>How-To-Repeat:
source code t.C

#define LONG_LONG_MAX 9223372036854775807LL
#define LONG_LONG_MIN (-LONG_LONG_MAX-1)

template<class T, T min_val, T max_val>
        class C {};

template<>
public C<long long, LONG_LONG_MIN, LONG_LONG_MAX>
    { };

int main()
{
}


Compiling the program t.C
g++ -v -o t t.C -W -Wall -save-temps
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.1/specs
Configured with: ../gcc/configure --enable-shared --disable-nls --enable-threads=posix --enable-long-long
gcc version 3.1 20010304 (experimental)
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.1/cpp0 -lang-c++ -D_GNU_SOURCE -D__GNUG__=3 -D__EXCEPTIONS -D__GXX_ABI_VERSION=100 -v -D__GNUC__=3 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=1 -D__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__=0 -D__ELF__ -Dunix -Dlinux -D__ELF__ -D__unix__ -D__linux__ -D__unix -D__linux -Asystem=posix -D__STDC_HOSTED__=1 -W -Wall -Acpu=i386 -Amachine=i386 -Di386 -D__i386 -D__i386__ -D__tune_i686__ -D__tune_pentiumpro__ t.C t.ii
GNU CPP version 3.1 20010304 (experimental) (cpplib) (i386 Linux/ELF)
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/local/include/g++-v3
 /usr/local/include/g++-v3/i686-pc-linux-gnu
 /usr/local/include
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.1/include
 /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include
 /usr/include
End of search list.
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.1/cc1plus -fpreprocessed t.ii -quiet -dumpbase t.C -W -Wall -version -o t.s
GNU CPP version 3.1 20010304 (experimental) (cpplib) (i386 Linux/ELF)
GNU C++ version 3.1 20010304 (experimental) (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
	compiled by GNU C version 3.1 20010304 (experimental).
t.C:8: parse error before `$'

Preprocessed source code t.ii

# 4 "t.C"
template<class T, T min_val, T max_val>
        class C {};

template<>
public C<long long, (-9223372036854775807LL -1), 9223372036854775807LL>
    { };

int main()
{
}

>Fix:
Remove the keyword public. But than g++ stops with an internal compiler error, 
though.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: