template with friend function problem

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 20, 2000, "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

>> What is wrong with my instantiation of friend functions?

> In C++, at the point of instantiation, the definition of a template
> function (or class) must be visible

I had just finished writing a message with identical content to yours
when I noticed that this was the case with his code: instantiate.cpp
did include Vector.C, so the definition was available at the point of
instantiation.

So, unless instantiation.o was not included in library, there is a bug
in gcc.

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