static data member problem

[Alexandre Oliva]

Mark E <snowball3@usa.net> writes:

> The program below generates an "undefined reference to 
> container<char>::null_str_c" when STATIC is defined with egcs 
> 1.1 for DJGPP. It seems perfectly legal to me, is the error correct 
> or have I found a bug?

You have found a bug.  I can reproduce it on IRIX 5.2 and SunOS 4.1.3,
but not on other Unix platforms I've got access to.  I believe it is
the same problem that affects platforms that lack ELF weak-symbols:
static data members of template classes have to be explicitly
instantiated on them :-(

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Alexandre Oliva
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