Hello, Jochen Hammann has stumbled onto a problem which can be reduced to the following: In MSVC 7.1, if setting the compiler option /vmg, is_base_and_derived crashes when dealing with instantiations of template classes that have pointers to members as template params. The attached code, if compiled with /vmg, ICEs as follows: d:\...\boost\type_traits\is_base_and_derived.hpp(127) : fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR (compiler file 'msc1.cpp', line 2701) Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++ Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more information (I don't know if the problem persists in MSVC 8.0.) Is there any hope that this can be solved? Thanks in advance, Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo