Re: Support for export keyword ?
On Jan 25, 5:14 pm, Juha Nieminen <nos...@thanks.invalid> wrote:
James Kanze wrote:
But it doesn't solve the problem. You've shown that in one
simple case it can be made to work. That's not what's required.
It has to work in all legal cases.
That's why I asked for examples of export templates which are
difficult for compilers to implement. All you have said is
that export templates are difficult, without giving any actual
examples.
I mentionned several cases in another posting. All it needs is
for some dependent symbol to be defined elsewhere in the
translation unit. A typical example (simplified to the minimum
necessary to show the problem) might be:
Type.hpp:
class Type {};
TypeIO.hpp:
std::ostream operator<<( std::ostream&, Type const& );
User.cpp:
#include "Type.hpp"
#include "TypeIO.hpp"
void f( std::ostream& dest, std::vector< Type > const& objs )
{
std::copy( objs.begin(), objs.end(),
std::ostream_iterator< Type >(dest) );
}
What does the compiler have to include to compile the
instantiation of std::ostream_iterator< Type > at a later point?
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James Kanze
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