Re: VS 2005 Error - Error: see reference to class template instantiation

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 8 May 2006 08:18:14 -0400
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"Roland" <ajay.sonawane@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1147086047.061389.231740@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com

Fatal error C1001: An internal error has occurred in the compiler.

Here is CMultiMap defined in collections.h

template <class Key, class Value, class Compare = std::less <Key> >
class CMultiMap : public std::multimap<Key, Value, Compare >
{
public:
typedef typename CMultiMap<Key, Value, Compare>::iterator iterator;


Make it

typedef typename std::multimap<Key, Value, Compare>::iterator iterator;

You are defining 'iterator' as a typedef for itself. I'm not sure if
it's legal or not, but I can see where it may confuse the compiler.
Also, you have an identical definition further below, which is likely
also illegal.
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