Hi Arturs, > The question is, why gcc tries to resolve "operator *()" at variable > declaration time, but not at operator invocation time? Yeah, *(void*) is > meaningless, but so is (int)->. I may be mistaken, but I think the methods of the instantiated template are created when the template is instantiated, not when those methods are used. In the case you've run into, a template specialization would be the appropriate way to handle this situation. HTH, --Eljay
