Type problem with template functions and inheritance?

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

> I played a little with templates and template functions, and I encountered a
> problem with GCC while doing so. The code at the end of this message builds
> with Microsoft's Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, but fails with GCC. Since the code
> is quite "weird", I wonder whether there's a problem in GCC or Visual is too
> laxist.
>
> What is strange is:
>   - the "<unknown type>" in the error message
>   - the fact that if I "help" GCC a little (before the first static_cast),
> then things work fine.

I just opened PR 17359 for this. It seems to me that gcc is wrong indeed.

W.

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