https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98882
--- Comment #6 from Boris Kolpackov <boris at kolpackov dot net> --- After this change I now get an ICE (that same assert) when partially preprocessing (-E -fdirectives-only) a TU that has an include directive that is translated to an import: cat <<EOF >hello.hxx void f (); EOF cat <<EOF >main.cxx #include "hello.hxx" //import "hello.hxx"; int main () {} EOF cat <<EOF >mapper #!/usr/bin/env bash function info () { echo "$*" 1>&2; } function resp () { info " < $*"; echo "$*"; } while read l; do info " > $l" case "$l" in HELLO*) resp "HELLO 1 test ;" ;; MODULE-REPO) resp "PATHNAME /" ;; INCLUDE-TRANSLATE*hello.hxx) resp "PATHNAME $(pwd)/hello.gcm" ;; INCLUDE-TRANSLATE*) resp "BOOL FALSE" ;; MODULE-EXPORT*|MODULE-IMPORT*) resp "PATHNAME $(pwd)/hello.gcm" ;; MODULE-COMPILED*) resp "OK" ;; *) resp "ERROR 'unexpected request: $l'" ;; esac done EOF chmod ugo+x ./mapper g++ -std=c++2a -fmodules-ts -fmodule-mapper='|./mapper' -fmodule-header -x c++-header hello.hxx g++ -std=c++2a -fmodules-ts -fmodule-mapper='|./mapper' -E -fdirectives-only -x c++ -o main.ii main.cxx main.cxx:1: internal compiler error: in cpp_directive_only_process, at libcpp/lex.c:4323 0x2c26a7a cpp_directive_only_process(cpp_reader*, void*, void (*)(cpp_reader*, CPP_DO_task, void*, ...)) ../../gcc/libcpp/lex.c:4323 0xf1745e scan_translation_unit_directives_only ../../gcc/gcc/c-family/c-ppoutput.c:402 0xf16928 preprocess_file(cpp_reader*) ../../gcc/gcc/c-family/c-ppoutput.c:100 0xf10e2b c_common_init() ../../gcc/gcc/c-family/c-opts.c:1195 0xbe8ea7 cxx_init() ../../gcc/gcc/cp/lex.c:332 0x180c1af lang_dependent_init ../../gcc/gcc/toplev.c:1881 0x180ca61 do_compile ../../gcc/gcc/toplev.c:2178 Note that there is no assert if we are using import directly, without include translation.