I've got a complex template expression which produces an internal error into gcc. By chance I tried on the native Mac gcc-4.0.0 and it gaves me correct error messages as the templates are not qualified correctly. Nonetheless, I think it is worth reporting for future regression tests.
Sebastien. dhcp-8:~/build/rep smirolo$ g++ -v -save-temps -Iootbc/include -I${HOME}/installed/local/include testLatency.cc Reading specs from /Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/gcc-3.4.4/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0/3.4.4/specs Configured with: /Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/reference/gcc-3.4.4/configure --prefix=/Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/gcc-3.4.4 --enable-languages=c,c++ Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.4 /Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/gcc-3.4.4/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0/3.4.4/cc1plus -E -quiet -v -Iootbc/include -I/Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/include -D__DYNAMIC__ testLatency.cc -fPIC -o testLatency.ii ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/local/include" ignoring nonexistent directory "/Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/gcc-3.4.4/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0/3.4.4/../../../../powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0/include" #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: ootbc/include /Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/include /Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/gcc-3.4.4/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0/3.4.4/../../../../include/c++/3.4.4 /Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/gcc-3.4.4/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0/3.4.4/../../../../include/c++/3.4.4/powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0 /Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/gcc-3.4.4/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0/3.4.4/../../../../include/c++/3.4.4/backward /Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/gcc-3.4.4/include /Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/gcc-3.4.4/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0/3.4.4/include /usr/include End of search list. /Volumes/Home/Users/smirolo/installed/local/gcc-3.4.4/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0/3.4.4/cc1plus -fpreprocessed testLatency.ii -fPIC -quiet -dumpbase testLatency.cc -auxbase testLatency -version -o testLatency.s GNU C++ version 3.4.4 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0) compiled by GNU C version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247). GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=30 --param ggc-min-heapsize=4096 testLatency.cc: In function `latency latencyOf(size_t, widthTag, widthTag, int)': testLatency.cc:8: internal compiler error: in lookup_member, at cp/search.c:1287 Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions. dhcp-8:~/build/rep smirolo$ -- Summary: internal compiler error in template resolution Product: gcc Version: 3.4.4 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: smirolo at hotmail dot com GCC host triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0 GCC target triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26186