http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46156
--- Comment #11 from Yu Simin <silver24k at gmail dot com> 2010-12-19 06:38:18 UTC --- my test case #include <stdarg.h> template <typename _T> void foo (long double *p, va_list &argptr) { *p = va_arg (argptr, long double); } void bar (va_list ap) { long double argdata; foo<char> (&argdata, ap); } still causes this ICE against current trunk: just g++ -v -c ice.cpp Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++ COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/snowfishroot/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/lto-wrapper.exe Target: mingw32 Configured with: ../../../gcc_trunk/configure --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --host=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --with-pkgversion='MinGW GCC 4.5' --disable-win32-registry --enable-shared --enable-static --enable-libgomp --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-gmp=/mingw --with-mpfr=/mingw --with-ppl=/mingw --with-cloog=/mingw --enable-libstdcxx-debug --with-build-time-tools=/platform/cross-on-linux/mingw --disable-nls --with-mpc=/mingw --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-lto --disable-plugin --enable-checking=release --enable-sjlj-exceptions Thread model: win32 gcc version 4.6.0 20101218 (experimental) mingw-20090616 (MinGW GCC 4.5) COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-c' '-shared-libgcc' '-mtune=generic' '-march=pentiumpro' c:/snowfishroot/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/cc1plus.exe -quiet -v -iprefix c:\snowfishroot\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/ -D__MSVCRT_DLL__ ice.cpp -quiet -dumpbase ice.cpp -mtune=generic -march=pentiumpro -auxbase ice -version -o D:\Temp\ccjWK4lv.s GNU C++ (MinGW GCC 4.5) version 4.6.0 20101218 (experimental) mingw-20090616 (mingw32) compiled by GNU C version 4.6.0 20101218 (experimental) mingw-20090616, GMP version 5.0.1, MPFR version 3.0.0-p3, MPC version 0.8.2 GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072 ignoring nonexistent directory "c:\snowfishroot\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/../../../../mingw32/include" ignoring duplicate directory "c:/snowfishroot/mingw/lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/include/c++" ignoring duplicate directory "c:/snowfishroot/mingw/lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/include/c++/mingw32" ignoring duplicate directory "c:/snowfishroot/mingw/lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/include/c++/backward" ignoring duplicate directory "c:/snowfishroot/mingw/lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/include" ignoring nonexistent directory "/mingw/include" ignoring duplicate directory "c:/snowfishroot/mingw/lib/gcc/../../include" ignoring duplicate directory "c:/snowfishroot/mingw/lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/include-fixed" ignoring nonexistent directory "c:/snowfishroot/mingw/lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/../../../../mingw32/include" ignoring nonexistent directory "/mingw/include" #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: c:\snowfishroot\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/include/c++ c:\snowfishroot\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/include/c++/mingw32 c:\snowfishroot\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/include/c++/backward c:\snowfishroot\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/include c:\snowfishroot\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/../../../../include c:\snowfishroot\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.6.0/include-fixed End of search list. GNU C++ (MinGW GCC 4.5) version 4.6.0 20101218 (experimental) mingw-20090616 (mingw32) compiled by GNU C version 4.6.0 20101218 (experimental) mingw-20090616, GMP version 5.0.1, MPFR version 3.0.0-p3, MPC version 0.8.2 GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072 Compiler executable checksum: 513ac793d2c1b06037d476024361a9f7 ice.cpp: In function 'void foo(long double*, char*&) [with _T = char, va_list = char*]': ice.cpp:14:28: instantiated from here ice.cpp:7:5: internal compiler error: in tsubst_copy, at cp/pt.c:11682 Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions. maybe I should file another PR ?