Re: templates generating end-of-file found C1004 when compiling in

From:
"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:48:45 -0600
Message-ID:
<o2p9r2t66lpl0c1daoslf0nvguhag1ve90@4ax.com>
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:51:03 -0800, Doug <probsolv@noemail.nospam> wrote:

The problem ended up being that the compiler was looking for a semicolon
after the function. You can see the code below. So is this a bug in the
compiler or is this supposed to be required and the earlier compilers simply
compiled it anyway?????

#include "afxtempl.h"

struct mystruct
{
    int x;
    int y;

};

template<> UINT AFXAPI HashKey<mystruct> (mystruct _mystruct);

UINT AFXAPI HashKey<mystruct> (mystruct _mystruct)
{
    return 1;
} ; /// will give error if semicolon is missing ///


Namespace-level functions never require a semicolon after their closing
brace; in fact, it's an error for one to appear there. The real problem is
that you omitted the template<> specifier on the definition of the
attempted function specialization, and the compiler isn't complaining about
it. You can report it here:

http://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/default.aspx?SiteID=210

To fix the problem, write it like this:

template<> UINT AFXAPI HashKey(mystruct _mystruct)
{
    return 1;
}

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP

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