Re: Explicitly specializing std::min() on VC++ 2005 Express Edition

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 2 May 2007 15:42:47 -0400
Message-ID:
<f1apjp$vqi$1@news.datemas.de>
Matthias Hofmann wrote:

"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:f1al1r$m1m$1@news.datemas.de...

Did you include the header where the 'std::min' template is actually
defined? Unless the compiler knows that 'std::min' is a template, it
cannot allow you to specialise it.


Yes, I did. Here's the complete code I am using:

#include <algorithm> // Defines std::min().
#include <cstring> // Defines std::strcmp().

namespace std
{
   template <> inline const char*& min<>
   ( const char*& a, const char*& b )
   {
       return std::strcmp( a, b ) < 0 ? a : b;
   }
}

int main()
{
   return 0;
}

I also tried different signatures, like 'const char* min( const char*
a, const char* b )', but those gave me the same error code.


Add 'const' to the type of the object referred to by arguments:

template<> inline const char* const& min<>
( const char* const& a, const char* const& b) ...

V
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