Friend in derived template class - compiler broken, worth an FAQ, or is it just me?

From:
Andy Champ <no.way@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:01:11 +0000
Message-ID:
<MsWdnfrl5sPnf8vWnZ2dnUVZ8g-dnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk>
I'm running MSVC, and I haven't tried it on anything else.

This is fine

// Base class
struct Base
{
       Base(){};
};

// declare factory function
template <class T> Base* Ctor();

template <typename T> class C: public Base
{
       friend Base* Ctor<T>();
private:
       // Private constructor (can only make this from a friend)
       C() {};
};

template <class T> Base* Ctor()
{
       return new C<T>();
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
       Base* p = Ctor<int>();
}

But this isn't

struct wrapper
{
       // Base class
       struct Base
       {
             Base(){};
       };

       // declare factory function
       template <class T> static Base* Ctor();

       template <typename T> class C: public Base
       {
             friend Base* Ctor<T>();
       private:
             // Private constructor (can only make this from a friend)
             C() {};
       };
};

template <class T> wrapper::Base* wrapper::Ctor()
{
       return new C<T>();
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
       wrapper::Base* p = wrapper::Ctor<int>();
}

..... because you have to say

       friend Base* wrapper::Ctor<T>();

No idea what Ctor it thought I meant - there's only one in the program!
  Is this a funny in the MS compiler, or is it expected? If the latter,
is it worth an FAQ entry?

Andy

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