template and static methods

From:
CHAFIK Wassime <wassimec@yahoo.fr>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
21 Apr 2009 18:42:12 GMT
Message-ID:
<49ee1384$0$6837$5fc30a8@news.tiscali.it>
hi
well i was testing various implementations of sorting algorithms,
and i found my self stuck in this error

testSortingCpp.cpp:36: undefined reference to `Sorting<Node>::fibHeapSort
(std::vector<Node*, std::allocator<Node*> >&)'

i'm using g++ ver: 4.3.3 on a i486-linux-gnu platform

#####################################################
here is sorting.hpp
#####################################################
*!implementation of various sorting algorithms.
 */
#ifndef __SORTING_HPP
#define __SORTING_HPP
#include <vector>

/**utility class providing various sorting algorithms and helper methods.
 */
template<typename T>
class Sorting{
public:
  static void fibSiftDown( std::vector<T*>& heap,int start ,int end);
  /**<sifting down upon a fibonacci heap stored in a vector*/
  static void fibHeapify( std::vector<T*>& heap,int end);
  /**<heapify a fibonacci heap stored in a vector*/
  static void fibHeapSort( std::vector<T*>& heap);
  /**< the actual fibonacci heap sort*/
};

#endif

##################################################
here is sorting.cpp
##################################################
#include "sorting.hpp"
using namespace std;

template<typename T>
void Sorting<T>::fibSiftDown(vector<T*>& heap,int start,int end){
  int firstChild=3*start+1;
  int maxChild = firstChild;
  //if start hasn't at least a child return
  if(firstChild>end) return;
  //point to the max child
  if(firstChild+1<=end && *heap[firstChild+1] > *heap[firstChild] ){
    maxChild++;
  }
  if(firstChild+2<=end && *heap[firstChild+2] > *heap[maxChild] ){
    maxChild=firstChild+2;
  }
  if(*heap[start] < *heap[maxChild]){
    T* tmp = heap[start];
    heap[start] = heap[maxChild];
    heap[maxChild] = tmp;
    //siftdown the child too
    fibSiftDown(heap,maxChild,end);
  }
};

template<typename T>
void Sorting<T>::fibHeapify(vector<T*>& heap,int end){
  int start = (end-2)/3;
  while(start>=0){
    fibSiftDown(heap,start,end);
    start--;
  }
};

template<typename T>
void Sorting<T>::fibHeapSort(vector<T*>& heap){
  int end = heap.size()-1;
  while(end>0){
    fibHeapify(heap,end);
    T* tmp = heap[0];
    heap[0] = heap[end];
    heap[end] = tmp;
    end--;
  }
}

#########################################################
finally the testing main,
#########################################################

#include "sorting.hpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#define MAXELEMENT 100
using namespace std;
class Node{
public:
  int val;
  Node(int a):val(a){};
  Node(const Node& n):val(n.val){};
};
bool operator < (const Node a,const Node b){
  return a.val < b.val;
};
bool operator > (const Node a,const Node b){
  return a.val > b.val;
};
bool operator <= (const Node a,const Node b){
  return a.val<=b.val;
};
bool operator >= (const Node a,const Node b){
  return a.val>=b.val;
};
bool operator == (const Node a,const Node b){
  return a.val == b.val;
}

int main(int arg, char** args){
  srand(time(0));
  vector<Node *> * ptree = new vector<Node*>(MAXELEMENT,new Node(rand
()));
  for(int i =1;i<MAXELEMENT;i++){
    (*ptree)[i]= new Node(rand());
  };
  Sorting<Node>::fibHeapSort(*ptree);
  cout<<"ordered sequence"<<endl;
  for(int i = 0;i<MAXELEMENT;i++){
    cout<<(*ptree)[i]->val<<endl;
  };
  return 0;
}
############################################

i really can't understand what happened exactly
i tested various flavor of this implementation but i can't understand
this particular one

sorry for my English and thanks in advance

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