problem with explicit template function specification

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 29, 2000, "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

>> In the program below, calling the template function A::f<>()
>> from the member function in a template class fails,
>> while calling it from an ordinary member function succeeds.

> Thanks for your bug report. This is not a bug in the compiler, but in your
> code. You have to write

>                int i = a.template f<int>();

I think the `template' keyword is only required when the object type
is template-dependent.  In this case, it wasn't, so GCC shouldn't
require the `template' keyword.  But this is one of the bugs that are
unlikely to be fixed before the C++ parser rewrite.

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