GCC Template bug or my bad?

[Jeroen Benckhuijsen]

Hi,

I'm working on a project, originaly build on windows, and i'm now trying 
to compile it using gcc/linux. The whole project is written in ANSI C++ 
(afaik), so apart from some Win32 API calls, it "should" compile.  The 
following piece of code produces an error, although i think it's correct 
C++ (or am i wrong). I've checked to docs of gcc, but couldn't find any 
pointers...

template <class T>
bool
SharedMemory::pget (T& n) const
{
        const unsigned long  tsize = sizeof(T);
        if (_pos + tsize > _memory->Size()) {
                return false;
        }
        char* p = _memory->Pointer<char*>() + _pos;  /***** ERROR ****/
        T*    q = (T*)(p);
        n = *q;
        _pos += tsize;
        return true;
}

where the template method is defined as

class ShMemory {
public:
    /* snip: some boring stuff */

    template <class T>
    T    Pointer        ()
    {
        return static_cast<T>(_Pointer());
    }
   
    /* snip some other boring stuff */
};


The error:

SharedMemory.cpp: In member function `bool SharedMemory::pget(T&) const':
SharedMemory.cpp:109: parse error before `*' token

The code compiles without any problems in Visual C++ 2003 (which isn't a 
garantee for correctness off course..). The same error happens in every 
situation with template method specialization. My first guess was a bad 
on my side, but after checking Stroustroup's "The C++ Programming 
language", i couldn't find anything pointing to an error on my side. Any 
hints?

Jeroen