From -5394906377647122136 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,a10c9d2f2b309296 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: jason@cygnus.com (Jason Merrill) Subject: Re: Template Instantiation Date: 1995/10/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 118384711 approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au references: <9510272025.AA09665@absoft.absoft.com> x-original-date: 29 Oct 1995 19:46:06 -0800 organization: Cygnus Support, Mountain View, CA x-auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ newsgroups: comp.std.c++ >>>>> David Vandevoorde writes: > I believe it is implicit in the semantic descriptions throughout the DWP. > For functions (member or not), they should only be instantiated if they > are called. The only exception are virtual functions: they can be > instantiated if the class to which they belong is instantiated. What if their address is taken? What if they are called in a sizeof expression? What about static data members? Jason --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. Submission address: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu. Contact address: std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu. The moderation policy is summarized in http://dogbert.lbl.gov/~matt/std-c++/policy.html. ]