Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
| And, "extern template" is a GNU | extension which says "there's an explicit instantiation elsewhere; you | needn't bother implicitly instantiating here". FWIW, "extern template" is now part of C++0x. | I'm just not comfortable with the idea of #pragmas affecting | instantiations. (I'm OK with them affecting specializations, though; in | that case, the original template has basically no impact, so I think | it's fine to treat the specialization case as if it were any other | function.) I'm undecided whether #pragmas should not affect explicit instantiations. They really are not like implicit instantiations (which, I agree with you, should not be affected). Explicit instantiations behave more like real declarations than implicit instantiations. -- Gaby
