------- Additional Comments From chris at bubblescope dot net 2005-08-12 18:34 ------- Yep, it's the extra template parameter which is confusing the compiler. If you have parameters it can't deduce from the input to a function, they must be given explicitly, so in this case that function is just ignored. This has been wrong since it was submitted (version 1.19 of the file). Removing that extra template parameter is the right thing to do. I had a quick look at other functions submitted at the same time and they are fine, so it's just a copy+paste bug I suspect :)
Hopefully gcc will eventually get clever enough to remove empty loops by itself, and then we won't need these types of hacks, but for now this is the right patch to apply. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23358
