Re: error: ambiguous overload for 'operator <<' in ...

[glen]

OOps.  I apologize, in the last post I copy and pasted from a window
where I had commented some things out to see the effect.  For clarity, 
this is what I intended to post.

    friend inline ostream& operator<<(ostream& os, const Range& range)
    {
      os << "Range("  << range.first() << "," << range.last() << ","
                 << range.stride() << ")";

        return os;
    }

And the errors:

/usr/include/blitz/range.h:173: error: ambiguous overload for
operator<<òù in òøos << "Range("òù
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:241:
note: candidates are: std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator<<(long int) [with _CharT =
char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:264:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator<<(long unsigned int) [with
_CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:102:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator<<(bool) [with _CharT = char,
_Traits = std::char_traits<char>]
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:125:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator<<(short int) [with _CharT =
char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:157:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator<<(short unsigned int) [with
_CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:183:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator<<(int) [with _CharT = char,
_Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:215:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator<<(unsigned int) [with _CharT
= char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:288:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator<<(long long int) [with
_CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:311:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator<<(long long unsigned int)
[with _CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:407:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator<<(const void*) [with _CharT
= char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] ../2dFDTD/utilities.hpp:53:
note:                 std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream&, const C&)
[with C = char [7]]
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:735:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<char, _Traits>&
std::operator<<(std::basic_ostream<char, _Traits>&, const char*) [with
_Traits = std::char_traits<char>]
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:690:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::operator<<(std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&, const char*) [with
_CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>]
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/bits/ostream.tcc:657:
note:                 std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&
std::operator<<(std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>&, const _CharT*) [with
_CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>]

Since blitz is a pretty broadly compiled library, I think I must have some
kind of compiler problem.  Perhaps I am doing something wrong, or perhaps
my gcc configuration is bad.   Unfortunately I have no idea how to track
down the source of the problem.  I did find some hints on the web
mentioning the possiblity of bad type definitions in the 64 bit
libraries... Does anyone have any ideas?

offtopic, but if anyone wants to point out to me why the compiler's '
marks are being substituted with funky characters when I paste in here,
I'd be interested  (especially in instructions on how to fix the problem).