http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45894
--- Comment #12 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-02-02 16:27:46 UTC --- Although this bug has 4.4.5 in the "Known to work" field, the bug in cp/tree.c is present on the 4.4 branch, and the testcase in PR 47589 causes an ICE with 4.4.5, without -Wall or -std=c++0x The fix for cp/tree.c looks safe to backport to 4.4 - any objections to doing so? --- gcc/cp/tree.c.jj 2010-11-03 16:58:26.000000000 +0100 +++ gcc/cp/tree.c 2010-11-05 13:45:53.000000000 +0100 @@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ lvalue_kind (const_tree ref) == REFERENCE_TYPE) return lvalue_kind (TREE_OPERAND (ref, 0)); - if (TREE_CODE (TREE_TYPE (ref)) == REFERENCE_TYPE) + if (TREE_TYPE (ref) + && TREE_CODE (TREE_TYPE (ref)) == REFERENCE_TYPE) { /* unnamed rvalue references are rvalues */ if (TYPE_REF_IS_RVALUE (TREE_TYPE (ref))