Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| 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.
Yep. I'm sympathetic to Mark's position, but still tend to believe that
the #pragma should affect explicit instantiations. Explicit
instantiations are a way to make template instantiations conform more to
the traditional declaration/definition model. We ignore the #pragmas
for implicit instantiations because the user doesn't control the point
of instantiation; with explicit instantiations, they do.
Explicit instantiations don't behave just like implicit instantiations;
there are other differences.
Jason
