Re: Re: Template compilation

[Alexander Sclearuc <avs@netinfo.moldova.net>]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > I try to compile a simple template example (see attachments)
> > and I get the next error:
> >     Undefined			first referenced
> >       symbol  			    in file
> >     ostream & operator<<<int>(ostream &, array1<int> const &)template.o
> 
> Every template definition must be available whenever it is used for it
> to be implicitly instantiated (unless the template is defined with the
> `export' keyword, which is not implemented yet, anyway).  So, move the
> contents of template1.C into template1.h and it should work.

Thank you for your answer, this variant works.

But I still have a question.
I compiled recently with MSVC one library and all was OK.
The README file says that the library could be compiled with
EGCS-1.0.2, so I tried to compile the library with it.
And I get a lot of errors like one pointed above.
It took me almost a day to understand what the problem is;)

I don't want to change all library sources and
I would like to know what the C++ standard says 
about templates (from this point of view)

> > The standard C++ compiler for SCO (CC) compiles this example with
> > no problems.
> It probably uses some non-standard template repository mechanism.
Yes, it is a Cfront and it creates a repository directory 

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