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From: francis@robinton.demon.co.uk (Francis Glassborow)
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Subject: Re: compilers that implement the keyword 'export'
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In article <bpu4e8$clj$1@online.de>, Ekkehard Morgenstern 
<ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de> writes
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>"Razmig K" <strontium90@postmaster.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>news:3cad08b8.0311171811.2760c086@posting.google.com...
>> please name any recent C++ compiler that can handle 'export'ing
>> templates for effective separate compilation.
>> Thank you.
>
>IBM Visual Age for C++ V3.5 (AFAIK doesn't work on Windows 2000 and XP) and
>V4.0 (which entirely eliminates isolated module compliation).

And as such is non-conforming and cannot be made to conform. That is not 
to say that I do not like the approach that was taken by IBM, just that 
it will always result in code that can behave differently from the way 
specified by the C++ Standard.
>
>I don't know if the compiler is still manufactured or supported, or for
>which platforms.

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