Hi, neither 3.0.1, nor 3.1 20011017 (experimental), nor 2.96-99 (current Rawhide) ICE on this. Cheers, Paolo. P.S. Generally, bug reports for gcc2.96 (aka 2.96-RH) should be submitted to RedHat, not to GNU (see, f.i., http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00003.html ) http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=4598&database=gcc