I'm getting the following error when trying to compile a C++ file in VS 2003 with SP1:

fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR (compiler file 'f:\vs70builds\6030\vc\Compiler\Utc\src\P2\p2symtab.c', line 4537)

It happens on the following line in my code:

const char* p = "SomeText";

If I were to change this line to something like

const char* p = "SomeOtherText";

then it would compile just fine.

I've trying doing a complete rebuild, but the problem is still there.

Any ideas what is going wrong

That's pretty weird.  Something like this must be very rare, and together with the fact this is VS 2003, you'll probably just have to change your code in whichever way gets around the ICE rather than expect a fix in the compiler.

Do you have the same string elsewhere Maybe that's related. 

Do any string of the same length cause the problem  

Is /GF being used in your compiler settings

Probably it is related to the exact string, because I do have another occurence of exactly the same string elsewhere within the project. And changing the string on the line where I'm getting ICE to some other string of the same length makes the problem go away. I don't have the /GF in my compiler settings.

And the last piece of info - ICE happens in the Debug build; the release build (that does not have /GF either) works fine.

Is this a known VS 2003 issue

As suggested, I've posted a bug report to the Microsoft VS feedback site:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=252700