Re: [Toon-members] Commit message

[Gerhard Reitmayr]

with templated functions the linker has to resolve it, only explicit  
specialisations fall under the usual single definition rule (I think).  
thats also why the default template parameter lifting trick works for  
static members...

Gerhard

On 10 Jul 2009, at 16:17, Georg Klein wrote:

> Not the first one - I made a similar change to reference.hh in  
> april, but that was for a templated function.
>
> In general are we being naughty by not putting "static" or "inline"  
> in front of templated functions? It seems the compiler/linker lets  
> us get away with it, but I'm not sure why.
>
> On 10 Jul 2009, at 15:04, E. Rosten wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Georg Klein wrote:
> >
> > > ``Non-templated func needs to be static or global, or the linker  
> > > complains''
> >
> > > Make that static or inline. Do we have a policy preference on this?
> >
> > Not as far as I can tell. I think this is the first one, so the  
> > policy is now `inline' :-)
> >
> > -Ed
> >
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> > (You can't go wrong with psycho-rats.)(http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/ 
> > ~er258)
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