And this is a robustness change that I ended up not needing, but still
makes sense.
commit 3099f644d5427e1db3b4041ca4ed779ef213b6a0
Author: Jason Merrill <ja...@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Mar 19 11:34:46 2013 -0400
* pt.c (retrieve_specialization): Handle null tmpl argument.
diff --git a/gcc/cp/pt.c b/gcc/cp/pt.c
index 531d860..d56ffed 100644
--- a/gcc/cp/pt.c
+++ b/gcc/cp/pt.c
@@ -1009,6 +1009,9 @@ optimize_specialization_lookup_p (tree tmpl)
static tree
retrieve_specialization (tree tmpl, tree args, hashval_t hash)
{
+ if (tmpl == NULL_TREE)
+ return NULL_TREE;
+
if (args == error_mark_node)
return NULL_TREE;