Re: Is specialization of template functions in class templates std c++?
Roland wrote:
I have looked around for a while now, but was not
able to find an answer whether the following is legal std c++:
enum direction { north, east, south, west };
template <class T>
struct bar {
template <direction d>
void go();
template<> // the compiler complains here
void go<north>() { /*go north */ }
template<>
void go<east>() { /*go east */ }
template<>
void go<south>() { /*go south */ }
template<>
void go<west>() { /*go west */ }
private:
T some_data;
};
Unfortunately the above code compiles well with MSVC-7.1
but fails with gcc-3.4:
error: invalid explicit specialization before '>' token
I would be very glad if someone could give me the answer
to this question. If it turns out to be legal code, I would
also be glad to learn how to work around this for gcc.
It's not legal to specialize a member template of a class template,
without specializing the class template as well. Since this program
specializes bar::go() without specializing bar itself, gcc should not
compile it.
The go() specializations are not very useful anyway. There are exactly
four different go() functions with four different implementations. So
declaring four methods: go_north(), go_south(), and so forth to replace
the go() member function template would work just as well.
Greg
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