gcc linking and address of template function

["Brian Budge" <brian dot budge at gmail dot com>]

Hi all -

I'm attempting to use gsl (gnu scientific library) from my C++
program.  gsl is a C program, and I need to pass function pointers to
gsl to make it do it's magic on my data.

The problem I'm having stems from the fact that I need my functions to
be template functions.

I can get everything to compile, but I can't get it to link.

The gist is like this:

template<class Stencil>
int ll_uv_f(const gsl_vector *x, void *params, gsl_vector *f){
   LL_uv_data<Stencil> *lld = static_cast< LL_uv_data<Stencil>* >(params);
   const real a = gsl_vector_get(x,0);
   const real b = gsl_vector_get(x,1);
   Vec v = lld->ll->eval(a, b) - lld->pt;
   for(int i = 0; i < 2; ++i){
       gsl_vector_set(f, i, v[i]);
   }
   return GSL_SUCCESS;
}

template<class Stencil>
int ll_uv_df(const gsl_vector *x, void *params, gsl_matrix *J){...}

template<class Stencil>
int ll_uv_fdf(const gsl_vector *x, void *params, gsl_vector *f,
gsl_matrix *J){...}

The calling function then contains the code:

LL_uv_data<BaseStencil> dat(Vec(u,v), this);
gsl_multiroot_function_fdf f = {ll_uv_f<BaseStencil>,
                                          ll_uv_df<BaseStencil>,
                                          ll_uv_fdf<BaseStencil>,
                                          2, &dat};

I also explicitly instantiate the template functions for several
instances in a .cc file:

//explicit instantiation of template functions
template int ll_uv_fdf<CCStencil>(const gsl_vector *x, void *params,
gsl_vector *f, gsl_matrix *J);
template int ll_uv_fdf<BSStencil>(const gsl_vector *x, void *params,
gsl_vector *f, gsl_matrix *J);
.
.
.
template int ll_uv_df<CCStencil>(const gsl_vector *x, void *params,
gsl_matrix *J);
template int ll_uv_df<BSStencil>(const gsl_vector *x, void *params,
gsl_matrix *J);
.
.
.
template int ll_uv_f<CCStencil>(const gsl_vector *x, void *params,
gsl_vector *f);
template int ll_uv_f<BSStencil>(const gsl_vector *x, void *params,
gsl_vector *f);
.
.
.

The program compiles fine, and the functions int ll_uv_*() are found
by the nm utility to be in a .o file.

The program still won't link.  Anyone have any ideas?  Is this
something I'm doing wrong?  The gcc version is 3.4.5-r1, and this is
on a xeon box running linux.

Thanks,
 Brian