Visual C ++ Linker Crash (VS2008 SP1)

The following code snippet, used to generate prime numbers, compile and runs as expected when debug starts, but it always seems to break the inker when building in Release mode:

#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

template<typename T> class PrimeGen {
    struct Elim {
        T p ;
        T e ;
    } ;

    class Elim_cmp {
    public:
        bool operator()(const Elim& e1, const Elim& e2) { return e1.e > e2.e; }
    } ;

    std::vector<Elim> elim_heap ;
    T last ;

public:
    PrimeGen() {
        Elim e0 = { 2, 4 } ;
        elim_heap.reserve(1024) ;
        elim_heap.push_back(e0) ;
        last = 2 ;
    }

    T next() {
        T n = last ;
        bool prime;
        do {
            n ++ ;
            prime = true ;
            while(n == elim_heap.front().e) {
                if(prime) prime = false ;
                std::pop_heap(elim_heap.begin(), elim_heap.end(), Elim_cmp()) ;
                Elim& elim = elim_heap.back() ;
                elim.e = elim.p + n ;
                std::push_heap(elim_heap.begin(), elim_heap.end(), Elim_cmp()) ;
            }
        } while(!prime) ;
        Elim e = { n, 2*n } ;
        elim_heap.push_back( e ) ;
        std::push_heap(elim_heap.begin(), elim_heap.end(), Elim_cmp()) ;
        return last = n ;
    }
} ;

int main()
{
    using namespace std ;
    PrimeGen<unsigned int> pgen ;
    for(int i=0; i<100; i++) {
        cout << pgen.next() << endl ;
    }
    system("pause") ;
}

Can anyone understand why this is happening? Or did I come across one of those rare cases where the compiler is to blame, not the code?

The error I am getting is as follows:

error PRJ0002 : Error result -1073741819 returned from 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\mt.exe'.

If someone who runs Visual Studio takes time to try to create the code in release mode (I removed any external dependencies, so it should just be c & p), I would be very obliged.

. , mt.exe Release Hello World, . , . , .