> I have reported the same ICE before (early april), but I've managed
> to reduce the example (in fact, I've *halved* the line count :-)).

Thanks for your test case, I'll add it as g++.pt/explicit69.C.
A patch for the bug is below.

Martin

1998-07-11  Martin von Löwis  <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>

	* semantics.c (finish_class_definition): Gracefully handle
	classes that look like template instantiations.

Index: semantics.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/egcs/gcc/cp/semantics.c,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -c -p -r1.14 semantics.c
*** semantics.c	1998/07/07 11:25:01	1.14
--- semantics.c	1998/07/11 08:25:40
*************** finish_class_definition (t, components, 
*** 1293,1298 ****
--- 1298,1309 ----
       etc.  */
    shadow_tag (CLASSTYPE_AS_LIST (t)); */
  #endif
+ 
+   if (processing_explicit_instantiation)
+     {
+       /* We got 'template class x {};'. We will complain later. */
+       return t;
+     }
  
    /* finish_struct nukes this anyway; if finish_exception does too,
       then it can go.  */