[Fwd: Templates with more than one static variable]

[Dean Foster <foster at compstat dot wharton dot upenn dot edu>]

This looks like a bug in egcs.  It also has problems if the template static
variable is asigned from a function evalutation like:

int problems<T>::s_i = f(10);

The problem is in egcs 1.0.3

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.90.29/specs
gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)

thanks,

dean


  
Dean Foster wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if the following is a error in my thinking or a bug in egcs.
> Basically what happens is that if you have all the following:
> 
>      (1) two static variables
>      (2) one variable depends on the other for its value
>      (3) you explicitely instantiate the template
> 
> then it claims the variables are multiply defined.  So the following code
> doesn't run:
> 
> #include <iostream.h>
> 
> template<class T>
> class problems
> {
> public:
>   static int s_i;
>   static int s_j;
> };
> 
> template<class T>
> int problems<T>::s_i = 7;
> 
> template<class T>
> int problems<T>::s_j = 2*s_i;  // replacing this with 14 works
> 
> template class problems<int>;
> 
> main()
> {
>   cout << problems<int>::s_i << endl;
>   cout << problems<int>::s_j << endl;
> };
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> dean
> 
> (Dean Foster, Dept of Statistics, Wharton, U. of Penn)
> 
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• Subject: Templates with more than one static variable
• From: Dean Foster <foster at compstat dot wharton dot upenn dot edu>
• Date: 31 Mar 1999 15:17:09 -0500
• Approved: kuehl@fmi.uni-konstanz.de
• Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++.moderated
• Organization: University of Pennsylvania
• References: <372c6077.362475722@nntp.ix.netcom.com>
• Xref: nntp.upenn.edu comp.lang.c++.moderated:40884

I was wondering if the following is a error in my thinking or a bug in egcs. 
Basically what happens is that if you have all the following:

     (1) two static variables
     (2) one variable depends on the other for its value
     (3) you explicitely instantiate the template

then it claims the variables are multiply defined.  So the following code
doesn't run:

#include <iostream.h>

template<class T>
class problems
{
public:
  static int s_i;
  static int s_j;
};

template<class T>
int problems<T>::s_i = 7;

template<class T>
int problems<T>::s_j = 2*s_i;  // replacing this with 14 works 

template class problems<int>;

main()
{
  cout << problems<int>::s_i << endl;
  cout << problems<int>::s_j << endl;
};

            
thanks,

dean

(Dean Foster, Dept of Statistics, Wharton, U. of Penn)

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