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The following transcript shows a C++ program using templates that gets
a fatal signal with gcc-2.3.1, but compiles OK with gcc-2.2.2. This is
on a SPARC running SunOS Release 4.1.1.

Krste Asanovic,                   Computer Science Division, 
email: krste@cs.berkeley.edu      c/o 571 Evans Hall
phone: +1 (510) 642-4274 ext 143  University of California at Berkeley
fax:   +1 (510) 643-7684          CA 94720, USA

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icsib43:src>cat main.cc
template<class T>
class Vec
{
public:
    Vec(int nElements);
    ~Vec();

    int size();

protected:
    int n;
    T *p;
};

template<class T>
inline
Vec<T>::Vec(int nElements)
  : n(nElements)
{
    p = new T[nElements];
}

template<class T>
inline
Vec<T>::~Vec()
{
    delete[] p;
}

template<class T>
inline int
Vec<T>::size()
{
    return n;
}

main()
{
    Vec<int> a(3);

    return 0;
}
icsib43:src>gcc -o main main.cc
main.cc: In function `int  main ()':
main.cc:13: inconsistent return types for method `Vec' in class `Vec<int>'
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1plus got fatal signal 11
icsib43:src>gcc -V2.2.2 -o main main.cc
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