------- Additional Comments From bangerth at dealii dot org 2004-10-18 17:14 ------- Ah, never mind. I had misread my own example in that I thought that the instantiation of S<T> only required instantiation of A<T>, but in fact it also requires S<A<T> > which requires S<A<A<T> > >, etc, so we do have in fact an infinite list of instantiations. In that case, I don't even know whether we should consider this a bug: I would say the compiler is clearly doing something useful with your testcase (and with mine as well) in that it tries to go down the list of instantiations that the code clearly prescribes. Your testcase has no problem except the infinite list of instantiations, so there isn't very much the compiler can do differently apart from throttling the limit somewhat. So, what are we supposed to do? As mentioned in the patch you cite, -ftemplate-depth-50 is not enough, so 500 seems a reasonable choice. What value would you suggest instead? W.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16564
