I'm trying to migrate some Visual Studio code to gcc, but I'm getting errors with some of our template usage: class ParentClass { public: class NestedForwardDeclaration; template class SomeTemplateClass<NestedForwardDeclaration>; class NestedForwardDeclaration { ... }; }; BTW, this is distilled down to the core cause of the problem, so you really can't see the rationale for this convention. The complication error I get is on the "template class.." line: error: expected `<' before 'class' Does anyone understand why this fails? Note that this same code compiles and runs with the Microsoft compiler. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Template-Explicit-Instantiation-error-tp26157764p26157764.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.