From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problem with Templates
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 20:25:07 -0400
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Sean wrote:

> > However, it works perfectly if I get rid of testdef.cpp and put the
> > definition of testmethod in header.h or at the top of main.cpp, so it
> > doesn't look like it's anything to do with my code, but rather something
> > to do with the linker. Does anybody know if this is the case, and if so,
> > what should be done?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >     Andrew Geers
>
> All templates are like that.  Generally, I think, it's preferred to
> #include the cpp file at the end of the header file, but the cpp file
> needs to be #include'd somewhere, not just in the project file.  Well,
> maybe there's a compiler unlike that, but that's ANSI C++.

    To get around that would require some sort of linker-based compiler to
make the code for the templates.  I think the MSVC++ 5/6 does that.


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