I made some changes to Ice, and now it compiles without problems with GCC 2.95.3. (Apparently GCC 2.95.3 has some problems with fully scoped names and operator bool.)
All tests work, except for tests that involve loading of shared libraries (plugins, IcePack). I'm sure we can fix this problem, too.
If you like to have a snapshot version with support for GCC 2.95.3, please email me directly at
marc@zeroc.com.