On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Stefan Seefeld <ste...@seefeld.name> wrote: > > It certainly is enough to require, but isn't enough to magically make a > definition to appear. Either you provide the definition in the header, > and let the compiler do that magic of instantiating the template > on-demand, or you defer to a separate compilation unit, but then can't > rely on such magic and need to explicitly instantiate.
Makes sense, thank you. Hopefully, having this in the list archive will help others in the future. Somehow I had never run into the need to use explicit instantiation before! But I think I get it now: by the time the linker sees what's going on it's too late to generate the necessary object code. Best, Kyle _______________________________________________ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig
