Re: Incorrect (?) template specialization results when compiling with -O3

["Adam McLaurin" <gcc at irotas dot net>]

As I said in another email, this is fine so long as the specialization
is for a primitive type. For user-defined types it gets much more
complicated, and leads to circular dependencies.

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:25 -0400, "John Fine" <johnsfine@verizon.net>
wrote:
> No.  The header file did not declare the specialization, so the 
> specialization was called without being declared.
> 
> I think you only need to declare it, not define it, in the compilation 
> where it is called (though one of the posts in that link said 
> otherwise).  Change the header file to
> 
> // Binky.h
> #ifndef BINKY_H
> #define BINKY_H
> template<typename T> const char* getString()
> {
>     return "T";
> }
> template<> const char* getstring<int>();
> #endif