Moin Stefan! > Are you using gcc3? Forget it. I have reported a simple testcase to the gcc3 > developers with legal code that just crashes due to their new tree-based > inlining code (see gcc bug c++/2823). I can't do much about compiler bugs. Yes, I'm using gcc3. did you make sure the report is labeled "high" ? otherwise it won't get fixed before release. Dirk