template function specialization trouble - probably a user error, but...

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep 17, 2004, Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> Alan Lehotsky wrote:

>> template<> inline T::basetype MASK<T>(int width) ....

> It looks like you're trying to partially specialize a function
> template.  There is no such thing.

This is not partial specialization, it's explicit specialization,
which works for both class and function templates.  What he's missing
is a `typename' before T::basetype, such that GCC knows it's a
template-dependent type.

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