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In article <431cjr$k49@earth.alpha.net>, pi@earth.execpc.com says...
>
>What I am doing should be legal (I think), at least the compiler
>doesn't complain about it.
>
>typedef TArray<string> TArrayOfString;
>
>TArrayOfString &Funk(TArrayOfString &MyArray)
>        {
>        string s;
>
>        MyArray.Flush();  // ok, no linker error
>
>        MyArray.Add(string); // Fails at link time
>
>        return MyArray;
>        }
>
>So, this should be legal right? Is this a compiler name
>mangling bug or a linker bug that anyone knows of?
>

Neither. It's a code fragment that never actually uses the template instance, 
so the template never gets instantiated. I suspect that what's missing here is 
the information that this code lives in a DLL and is being called from another 
DLL or an EXE. In that case you have to either create an actual instance of 
this template in your DLL to convince the compiler that you need it or use the 
-Jg switches to force instantiation. The fact that Flush() is actually there 
is misleading. You really don't want to hear the explanation.
	-- Pete