From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: tjw30@cam.ac.uk
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: interface/implementation: export keyword?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199810272315.PAA18776@atrus.synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981027105608.730F-100000@tjw30.joh.cam.ac.uk>
> I'm trying to sensibly separate template definitions/declarations for
> a project I'm writing in C++, as I believe (?) it's good practice to
> separate the interface from the implementation.
The short answer is to put your template declarations in an .h file,
and your template definitions in a .cxx (or .cc) file, and until
egcs supports export, #include the .cxx file as well as the .h file
when you use the templates.
> After reading the egcs info pages and scanning the egcs source (!)
> I'm none the wiser, and I couldn't find this as a FAQ anywhere
> either. I even tried looking at the source of some other C++
> template libraries (STL, blitz++), but they don't appear to be
> enforcing the distinction between interface and implementation at what
> I'd thought was an obvious boundary.
That's because they work with existing compilers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-27 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-27 3:15 Terence J. Wells
1998-10-27 16:33 ` Joe Buck [this message]
1998-10-28 3:53 ` Terence J. Wells
1998-10-28 18:51 ` Joe Buck
1998-10-31 16:39 ` Martin von Loewis
1998-10-29 0:50 Jan Reimers
[not found] <71B30885B657D111809D080009EEBBF339EABC.cygnus.egcs@MAILSERV.molienergy.bc.ca>
1998-10-30 3:25 ` Nathan Myers
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