export templates

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sashan <sashang@ihug.co.nz> writes:

> joseph erickson wrote:
> > My name is Joseph Erickson, I am graduate student currently stationed at
> > the University of Minnesota Duluth.
> > My question and comment goes like this, when will the g++ compiler
> > support
> > the keyword "export" for compiling templates.
> > I hope that it is soon, as this feature would certainly set the gcc
> > compiler apart from other compilers.
> > Joseph Erickson
> >
> In case you didn't already know Comeau
> (http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout/) implements export. I'd be
> suprised if there are any plans to implement export in gcc. It's too
> much work
> (http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n1426.pdf).

You should have checked the minutes for the voting on that paper:


    Alternative    Straw Votes 

Remove export      8           

Leave in export    28          

Discuss more       7           

No more discussion 30          

(see http://xrl.us/b7v2)

There is a long thread about this somewhere in the comp.std.c++
    archives.