Re: Linker Role for Multiple Template class Object Instantiation
On Jul 9, 2:11 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach
+use...@gmail.com> wrote:
* Juha Nieminen, on 09.07.2010 13:47:
James Kanze<james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
No. Template functions are *not* implicitly declared inline
(unless they happen to be defined in a class template). Some
compilers may treat them the same, but the standard clearly
makes a difference.
If they weren't, you would get linker errors when you use
the same template function in more than one compilation
unit.
The linker behavior, discarding redundant linker records, is
the same yes.
Maybe, maybe not. Not all compilers generate redundant
instantiations to begin with.
[...]
AFAIK they can't be implicitly declared 'static' either
because then any possible static variables inside the
function would get duplicated for each compilation unit
where the function is called (which I think would be against
the specification of template functions).
Right.
struct Toto
{
template<typename T>
static int f(T const&);
};
template<typename T>
int Toto::f(T const&)
{
static int i = 0;
return ++i;
}
Of course, inline functions have the same problem. The compiler
has to solve it: there may only be one instance of Toto::f::i
per instantiation, regardless of how many translation units
instantiate the function for a given type.
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