Making MSVC6 Crash

I’ve been collecting these for a little while. Since we are now well under way in migrating to VS2005, now is a good time to post them.

.\Components/CommComponents/FDMSInterleaveTcpipComm/Test_FDMSInterleaveTcpipComm.h(106) : fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR
        (compiler file 'msc1.cpp', line 1794)
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was caused by:

    template<typename VersionPolicy> class SVDotPacketProductionPolicy;
    class SVDotPacketProductionPolicy<SV24VersionPolicy>;
    friend class SVDotPacketProductionPolicy<SV24VersionPolicy>;
    class SVDotPacketProductionPolicy<SV40VersionPolicy>;
    friend class SVDotPacketProductionPolicy<SV40VersionPolicy>;
Include\boost/bind/arg.hpp(25) : fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR
        (compiler file 'msc1.cpp', line 1794)
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This one started after I added

#include <boost/bind.hpp>

to a file and a simple, every-day use of boost::bind(). Moving the #include directive up before a number of other standard includes resolved the issue.

C:\projects\DASV2>scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
cl /FoComponents\AuthComponents\Credit\CCMps\Release\Tests.obj /c Components\AuthComponents\Credit\CCMps\Release\Tests.cpp /nologo /TP /nologo /MT /W2 /GX /GR /O2 /Zi /Zm200 /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "NDEBUG" /D "_MBCS" /FD /D "_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400" /D "_WIN32_DCOM" /IWindowsSDK\Include /IInclude /Icryptlib /IXML\Xerces\src /I. /IComponents\AuthComponents\Credit\CCMps
Tests.cpp
Include\boost/function/function_template.hpp(514) : fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR
        (compiler file 'msc1.cpp', line 1794)
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scons: *** [Components\AuthComponents\Credit\CCMps\Release\Tests.obj] Error 2
scons: building terminated because of errors.

06/01/2009 – This one was the result of passing a pointer to a static member function to boost::function1&lt;&gt;.

C:\projects\DASV2>scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
python.exe Utilities/CxxTest/cxxtestgen.py --runner=XmlPrinter --have-eh --have-std --check-memory -o CBase\ISOMsg\Debug\Tests.cpp CBase\ISOMsg\Test_Fields.h
cl /FoCBase\ISOMsg\Debug\Tests.obj /c CBase\ISOMsg\Debug\Tests.cpp /nologo /TP /nologo /MTd /Od /W2 /GX /GR /Zi /Zm200 /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "_MBCS" /FD /D "_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400" /D "_WIN32_DCOM" /D "DEBUG" /D "_DEBUG" /IWindowsSDK\Include /IInclude /Icryptlib /IXML\Xerces\src /I. /ICBase\ISOMsg
Tests.cpp
.\CBase/ISOMsg/Test_Fields.h(157) : fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR
        (compiler file 'msc1.cpp', line 1794)
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scons: *** [CBase\ISOMsg\Debug\Tests.obj] Error 2
scons: building terminated because of errors.

06/18/2009 – This one is the result of attempting to use a template member of template class. Here’s the (abbreviated) code:

template<typename C, C v>
struct ThreeArgConstructor
{
    template<class BaseT>
    struct Type : public BaseT
    {
        Type(int length)
            : BaseT(length, "TEST FIELD PACKAGER", v)
        {}
    };
};

template<
      BaseT
    , ConstructorT
    >
class Foo
{
    typedef typename ConstructorT::template Type<BaseT> TestPackager;

    void run() {
        TestPackager(10);
    }
};

int main() {
    Foo<Bar, ThreeArgConstructor<bool, false> >().run();
    return 0;
}