Re: dllexport template function: char* parameter problem
"Fabian" <Fabian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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"Ulrich Eckhardt" wrote:
Why do you insist on having all instantiations in the DLL? Why not
simply put the non-template parts into the DLL and make the rest
inline?
I'm sure you would have built up the whole project differently. But
what I now have is 6 dlls one of which provides/exports common stuff
for the others and the exe. I'm not sure whether I understand your
suggestion correctly: Wouldn't this in my case mean to have the code
for the non-template parts 5 times (i.e. in each comsumer dll plus
the exe)? In my philosophy every extra line of code is a potential
location of a bug...
You wouldn't have more lines of code (in fact, you will likely have
fewer, removing all the explicit instantiation plumbing). You would have
the same lines generate the same machine code in several places.
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