Re: Two phase name lookup and signature

From:

"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com>

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Date:

2 Jan 2007 10:31:11 -0500

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pstade.mb@gmail.com wrote:

Angelo Zhou wrote:

I don't quite understand why you wrote it. abc::bar() takes no argument,
while you passed two (one default empty string, one x of type T) to it
in function foo(). The compiler doesn't complain because templates are
not initiated until really called. But when you do call foo(), an error
message will be given.

I have so many functions that have to be dispatched
that I want to, rightly or wrongly, use macro.
Well, Comeau and GCC3.4.4 fail to compile the following.
(I see VC++ compiles because it has no two-phase name lookup.)

#include <string>

namespace abc {
    template< class T >
    void bar();
}

template< class T >
void foo(T x)
{
    abc::bar(std::string()); // fails in 1st phase.
}

I want to know a conforming compiler has the right to
diagnose the code of my first post; in 1st phase.

Again, I'm not sure. In this case, the function call is not
dependent, so the entire expression is non-dependent. I think
that this means that overload resolution can (should?) take
place in the first phase. This would correspond to one of the
goals of two phase lookup: detecting errors as early as
possible, when no possible instantiation would be legal.

(Note that this code is NOT equivalent to your initial example.
In your initial example, there was an extra argument in the
function call, the type of which depended on the intantiation.
That makes an enormous difference.)

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