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Re: Internal error, RHv6.0 i386 gcc v2.95.2
On Mar 9, 2000, "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> Incidentally, the C++ standard does not allow partial specializations
>> to be declared as friends. Only full specializations are allowed.
> Out of curiosity, and off-topic: Where exactly does it allow that?
[temp.friend]/1 says a friend can be [...] a specialization of a
funciton template or class template [...]. The example just below
exemplifies that.
> There is a core issue 68 where the grammar mistakenly disallows
> specializations, but even with this fixed, I don't see where it says
> what the meaning of
> friend class-key ::-opt nested-name-specifier-opt template-id
> would be, if it where allowed.
IMO, it's just implied by the fact that such a full specialization of
a class template is a class.
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