------- Additional Comments From giovannibajo at libero dot it 2004-12-02 09:28 ------- Right, the whole template header check code is a mess across many files and executed at different times. This works as a stop-gap:
Index: pt.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/cp/pt.c,v retrieving revision 1.945 diff -c -3 -p -r1.945 pt.c *** pt.c 12 Nov 2004 21:47:08 -0000 1.945 --- pt.c 2 Dec 2004 09:25:16 -0000 *************** check_explicit_specialization (tree decl *** 1739,1745 **** tree dname = DECL_NAME (decl); tmpl_spec_kind tsk; ! tsk = current_tmpl_spec_kind (template_count); switch (tsk) { --- 1739,1753 ---- tree dname = DECL_NAME (decl); tmpl_spec_kind tsk; ! if (is_friend) ! { ! if (!processing_specialization) ! tsk = tsk_none; ! else ! tsk = tsk_excessive_parms; ! } ! else ! tsk = current_tmpl_spec_kind (template_count); switch (tsk) { I'm testing it. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18733