Re: [Dev-C++] Template member function (C++ obviously)

[Hossein H. <ult...@em...>]

Dear Paul,

> I hope anyone can help me, cause I'm starting to consider making the
> entire class a template, just to get rid of the linker error. I already
> switched from Visual C++ 6 to GCC because of one of the many bugs in
> VC++6, one of which is that it doesn't seem to understand/support
> template member functions.

Oh, yes! Member templatisation is one of the C++ features that the
nasty MSVC++6 doesn't supports. One of bewildering (known) bugs of it!
That's whilst member templatatisation is completely Standard-compliant,
and that's a shame, out of thousands, for MSVC++6!

Hmmm... One point more: I know that you told the error is engendered by
the linker, but consider the following peice of code which I site
directly from TC++PL:Spec (Section C.13.6):

class Memory{
public:
  template<class T> T* get_new();
  template<class T> void release(T&);
};

template<class Allocator> void f(Allocator& m)
{
  int* p1 = m.get_new<int>();
  //Syntax Error: int after less than operator
  int* p2 = m.template get_new<int>();
  //explicit qualification
  //...
  m.release(p1);
  //template argument deduced: no explicit qualification needed
  m.release(p2);
}

Are you sure that's not arisen because of forgetting the "template
qualifier?"

Regards,
--Hossein
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