friend templates in gcc-2.8.0 & egcs-1.0.1
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Sun Feb 8 00:14:00 GMT 1998
In message <orhg6l5s7t.fsf@amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br>you write:
> This should be in the FAQ list. Jeff, would you put this in?
[ ... ]
> In order to make a specialization of a template function a friend of a
> (possibly template) class, you must explicitly state that the friend
> function is a template, by appending angle brackets to its name, and
> this template function must have been declared already. An error in
> the last public comment draft of the ANSI/ISO C++ Standard has led
> people to believe that was not necessary, but it is, and it was fixed
> in the final version of the Standard.
Done.
jeff
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