From: Wolfgang DOT Glas AT hfm DOT tu-graz DOT ac DOT at (Wolfgang Glas) Subject: different explicit instantiation in gcc-2.8.1 and egcs-1.1 30 Nov 1998 11:23:22 -0800 Message-ID: <36626182.167E.cygnus.gnu-win32@hfm.tu-graz.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi there ! I'm used g++ extensively under UNIX (AIX,IRIX,OSF,..) using GNU' recommended approach to template instantiation (#pragma interface, #pragma implementation and explicit instantiation). I'm more and more beginning to like this method, because it's the only that prevents me from recopiling tons of source code as in all 'automatic' instantiation approaches (i.e.: MipsPro compiler 7.x under IRIX(SGI)). There's one major difference in the syntax of explicit instantiation betweeen gcc-2.8.1 and egcs-1.1: Under gcc-2.8.1 it suffices to write template operator<<(ostream &,const smanip &); whereas under egcs-1.1 (CygWin 20B) you must specify the return type too, otherwise you get the error message 'no matching template for explicit instantiation...': template ostream & operator<<(ostream &,const smanip &); I the view of my eyes specifying the return type is obsolete, since a function is uniquely defined by its name and argument types. The second convetion runs under both, gcc and egcs, but I liked to use the short form without return type, because it allows for 'semi-automatic' instantiations derived from 'missing symbol' errors from the linker, which contain only the functions name and argument types (possibly in C++-mangled style (refer to binutils c++-filt tool)). So could sombody tell me, which syntax is the syntax from the correspondad ANSI working paper and how egcs and/or gcc will behave in future versions ? Thanks in advance, Wolfgang -- Mag. Wolfgang Glas Institut fuer hydraulische Stroemungsmaschinen Kopernikusgasse 24 Phone:++43/316/873/7578 A-8010 Graz Fax: ++43/316/873/7577 mailto:Wolfgang DOT Glas AT hfm DOT tu-graz DOT ac DOT at http://fhysmsg01.tu-graz.ac.at/Wolfgang.Glas/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".