From: deepblack AT geocities DOT com (Luís Coelho)
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Subject: Re: Templates AND GCC
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 21:59:53 GMT
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On 19 Mar 98 18:53:45 GMT, frenchc AT SPAMISNTCOOLcadvision DOT com
(Calvin French) uttered the following words:

>types to actually compile them from. Now, I believe there are two solutions. 
>You can either put dummy statements of some kind into list.cc, for instance:
>
>list<int> dummylist;

I think that the compiler is not obliged to generate code for the
whole thing just for the constructor. If you then *use*
functions, these will be generated as needed.

>Or perhaps there is a way to do it without having to make a data member which 

 There is according to the standard. Just write:

template list<int>;

and all the functions will be generated. Place this in your
list.cc file and then you will only need to include the list.h
header.


Luís Coelho.

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