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Re: [might be a bug] Solaris vs Linux template handling
On Apr 29, 1999, Lavoie Philippe <lavoie@yoho.genie.uottawa.ca> wrote:
> But how can I create a library then ?
Libraries of templates should provide the source code, so that the
user can use specializations for his own types. If you really want a
`closed' template library, you'll really have to explicitly
instantiate all the symbols the user might need.
> template <> void f<float>();
This is an explicit specialization, but not an explicit instantiation.
It shouldn't cause a non-weak symbol to be defined. But if you omit
the angle brackets, it becomes an explicit instantiation, and then at
most one translation unit must include that piece of code.
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