From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
Cc: Levente Farkas <lfarkas@ohsh.u-szeged.hu>, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: friend templates in gcc-2.8.0 & egcs-1.0.1 
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 00:14:00 -0000
Message-id: <10675.886925637@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <orhg6l5s7t.fsf@amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br>
X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg00281.html

  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