Hi! This is the smallest example I was able to create to demonstratet the
problem. It seems that a certain kind of object instantiation gets parsed as
a function definition (or whatever) by the compiler. I don't know if it
comes from some (maybe not-so-)dark corner of the C++ standard, or VC7.1 has
got a bug.

Thx,
Agoston

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template<typename T>
struct A {
A(T t):t(t) {}
T t;
};

template<typename T> void f()
{
cout << T() << endl;
A<T> a1((T()));
A<T> a2(T());   // function definition?
cout << a1.t << endl;
cout << a2.t << endl; // compile error! (*)
}

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
f<int>();
return 0;
}

// (*) error message:
// error C2228: left of '.t' must have class/struct/union type
//        type is 'overloaded-function'
// see reference to function template instantiation
// 'void f<int>(void)' being compiled

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