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Subject:	Re: [HELP]: Template Question
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Farooq Azam wrote:

> I need some help/sugegstions with compilation of the following code. It
> compiles fine under MS-VC++ 6  and does not under g++ version 2.952.

> template<class T> class Complex
> {
>         friend ostream& operator << (ostream &output, const Complex<T> &complex);

This is the problem.   You define this operator<< as a function template,
but the above friend declaration refers to somthing that is not a
function template specialization (just an ordinary function of the
appropriate type).  You need to insert <T> into the friend delcaration:

friend ostream& operator << <T>(ostream &output, const Complex<T> &complex);

The C++ standard has an example in 14.5.3 paragraph 1 that explains this.

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