------- Additional Comments From ramya dot chandar at wipro dot com 2004-11-23 12:31 ------- Subject: Re: seems not possible to specialize a template member function
clarification please... I tried including "template<>" in front of each of the specialized template member functions. It doesn't solve the problem. Looking at my code, for my knowledge, it doesn't look like violating the rule (14.7/5). Can you please tell me what exacting is going wrong and how does it violates the rule. According to 14.7/5 rule, A non-exported template that is neither explicitly specialized nor explicitly instan- tiated must be defined in every translation unit in which it is implicitly instantiated or explicitly instantiated; no diagnostic is required. An exported template need only be declared (and not necessarily defined) in a translation unit in which it is instantiated. A template function declared both exported and inline is just inline and not exported. But, in the code i have attached,( since the generalised and specialized template member functions ) are explicitely instantiated in a module( Sequence.impl ), its not defined separately in any of the translation unit. Still why does it fail. I don't know how is it violating the rule. Can you please tell me, what needs to be done exactly. Thanks, Ramya. ------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2004-11-05 04:28 ------- As I said before the code you have here is invalid C++. you have to add template<> in front of each of the specialization of a template member function. Also you have problems with template namelookup also (read the 3.4 release notes for the problems which I am talking about). -- pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote: >------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2004-11-05 >05:03 ------- >Invalid, as what you are doing is called explicit specializtion and when this >happens you instantiate the >template and now you are violating the one defintional rule (which is 14.7/5 >in the C++ standard). > > > -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18306
