I ran across this ICE while compiling some old code that used to compile cleanly with at least gcc 3.3.x and maybe 3.4.x. Looks like this ICE occurs in a number of 4.x versions including 4.0.1 (Darwin), 4.1.1 (Mandriva Cooker 2007), 4.1.2 (Fedora Core 7), as well as current 4.3.0 mainline from svn.
$ /home/tmp/u/rjpeters/gcc-svn-install/bin/g++ -v Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: /home/tmp/u/rjpeters/gcc-svn/configure --prefix=/home/tmp/u/rjpeters/gcc-svn-install --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-long-long --enable-checking --with-gmp=/home/tmp/u/rjpeters/gmp-4.2.1-install --with-mpfr=/home/tmp/u/rjpeters/mpfr-2.2.1-install Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.0 20071031 (experimental) [trunk revision 129804] (GCC) $ cat bug.C template <class T> struct A; template <class U> void foo(const U& x, ...); template <class T> void foo(const A<T>& x, ...); void bar(const A<int>& x, const char* y) { foo(x, y); // <--- ICE occurs here } $ /home/tmp/u/rjpeters/gcc-svn-install/bin/g++ -c bug.C bug.C: In function void bar(const A<int>&, const char*): bug.C:8: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions. The code compiles cleanly when either the '...' is replaced with 'const char*', or when one of the function overloads is removed. Other compiler versions that give the same ICE: $ g++ -v Using built-in specs. Target: i386-redhat-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-cpu=generic --host=i386-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12) $ g++ -v Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-mandriva-linux-gnu Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-slibdir=/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,objc,obj-c++,java --host=x86_64-mandriva-linux-gnu --with-cpu=generic --with-system-zlib --enable-long-long --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-ssp --disable-libssp Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.1 20060724 (prerelease) (4.1.1-3mdk) $ g++ -v Using built-in specs. Target: i686-apple-darwin8 Configured with: /private/var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5363.obj~28/src/configure --disable-checking -enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.0/ --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.0.0 --with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=powerpc-apple-darwin8 --with-arch=nocona --with-tune=generic --program-prefix= --host=i686-apple-darwin8 --target=i686-apple-darwin8 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363) Thanks, Rob Peters -- Summary: ICE at call to overloaded template function with variable-length function argument list Product: gcc Version: 4.3.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P3 Component: c++ AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: rjpeters at klab dot caltech dot edu GCC build triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33962