Re: Explicitly specializing std::min() on VC++ 2005 Express Edition
"Matthias Hofmann" <hofmann@anvil-soft.com> wrote in message
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Hello everyone,
I am trying to explicitly specialize std::min() to be able to process
C-style strings, but it does not work. Here's the code I have tried:
namespace std
{
template <> inline const char*& min<>
( const char*& a, const char*& b )
{
return std::strcmp( a, b ) < 0 ? a : b;
}
}
What I get is the following error on Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition:
error C2912: explicit specialization; 'const char *&std::min(const char
*&,const char *&)' is not a specialization of a function template
What am I doing wrong?
Just write it as an ordinary overload and you won't have any problem:
#include <algorithm> // Defines std::min().
#include <cstring> // Defines std::strcmp().
namespace std
{
inline const char* min(
const char* a,
const char* b
)
{
return std::strcmp( a, b ) < 0 ? a : b;
}
}
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