Re: ambiguous call to overloaded function

From:
"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:25:06 -0500
Message-ID:
<OHwFoAoCIHA.4308@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
<cablepuff@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1191870670.147227.182310@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

Heres the error message.
c:\cpw\msvc\cs512\c++\cppdef/median.cpp(199) : error C2668:
'select_sort' : ambiguous call to overloaded function
       c:\cpw\msvc\cs512\c++\cppdef/median.cpp(118): could be 'void
select_sort<std::string,std::vector>(std::vector<_Ty,_Ax>
&,std::_Vector_iterator<_Ty,_Alloc>,const int &,const int &)'
       with
       [
           _Ty=std::string,
           _Ax=std::allocator<std::string>,
           _Alloc=std::allocator<std::string>
       ]
       c:\cpw\msvc\cs512\c++\cppdef\../median.hpp(49): or 'void
select_sort<std::string,std::vector>(std::vector<_Ty,_Ax>
&,std::_Vector_iterator<_Ty,_Alloc>,const int &,const int &)'
       with
       [
           _Ty=std::string,
           _Ax=std::allocator<std::string>,
           _Alloc=std::allocator<std::string>
       ]
       while trying to match the argument list
'(std::vector<_Ty,_Ax>, iter, const int, int)'
       with
       [
           _Ty=std::string,
           _Ax=std::allocator<std::string>
       ]

Heres line 114-119 of median.cpp
template <typename T,
        template <typename ELEM, typename = std::allocator<ELEM> >
        class CONT

void select_sort(CONT<T>& array, typename CONT<T>::iterator Left,
                   const int& Size, const int& Step)

Heres line 45-49 of median.hpp
template <typename T,
        template <typename ELEM, typename = std::allocator<ELEM> >
        class CONT

extern void select_sort(CONT<T>&, typename CONT<T>::iterator, const
int&, const int&);

What is wrong?


One of the classes isn't matching. Probably median.hpp didn't #include
<string> or didn't #include <vector>.

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