Ok after having seen the numerous bugs in the compiler itself, I thought of taking notes on the kind of 
crap I am facing. For obvious legal reasons I cannot copy paste the code or mention the classes that 
have been effected, but I will give some example code here.
 This is VERY interesting bug that I faced while looking through the code of a very famous game engine.
 Some confiiguration details:

compiler:	 VC++ 7.1 aka VC++ .NET 2003
OS: 		Windows XP SP2
Other sw:	Firefox, Yahoo messenger and ICQ :D

Now if you take a look at the following code extract:

//Header file : CBuggyCompiler.h
class CBuggyCompiler
{
	friend ostream & operator << (ostream & os, const 
CBuggyCompiler & mySillyType)
	{
		/* Whatever code here */
	}
	void Wasted()
	{
		std::cout << this;
	}
}
//Implementation file : CBuggyCompiler.cpp
...


This gives a compilation error. Something like "No appropriate redirection operator << found for type int
in class CBuggyCompiler"
What baffled me was that this was an error that did not occur in Visual C++ 6.
However it was later that I learnt that even this version of the compiler had
posed similar problems. This particular problem could be fixed by installing
one of those innumerable service packs on Visual C++ 6.
 As of this writing I could not find a service pack that could fix this problem. I
guess it is about to come up or something like that. I hope that there is a
service pack out there and it was just me that could not find that service
pack. So this is how you could fix this bug (read: bug in compiler)

 The trick was to seperate the definition from the declaration. Thus your code would be
like this:

//Header file CBuggyCompiler.h

class CBuggyCompiler;

ostream & operator << (ostream & os, const CBuggyCompiler & mySillyType);

class CBuggyCompiler
{
        friend ostream & operator << (ostream & os, const 
CBuggyCompiler & mySillyType)
	{
		...
	}
        void Wasted()
        {
                std::cout << this;
        }
}

This fixed the error. Well this seems to fix the error.
I tried alot of the other things and then I figure out this could be reason.

If you have any suggestions/solutions please send them to 
cyrax {_A.T___} gdit.iiit.net