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+// This source file is part of the Swift.org open source project
+// Copyright (c) 2014 - 2016 Apple Inc. and the Swift project authors
+// Licensed under Apache License v2.0 with Runtime Library Exception
+//
+// See http://swift.org/LICENSE.txt for license information
+// See http://swift.org/CONTRIBUTORS.txt for the list of Swift project authors
+
+// RUN: not --crash %target-swift-frontend %s -parse
+class A{protocol a{struct d:a{{}class B<T>:A{{}}let c=f=1}typealias f)typealias B<>:AnyObject