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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

Two possibilities:
1) You haven't included the appropriate classlib files in your code (unlikely)
2) You haven't created an object of TArrayOfString.
      In this case, the template has not been fleshed out so the linker gets
      confused.  If you are trying to test other code and you want to keep this
      problematic stuff around before you finish it add a line like this 
      to your code  (a local variable will do):

            TArrayOfString dontwantitbutneedit;
   
Laura  

In article <431cjr$k49@earth.alpha.net>, pi@earth.execpc.com (Peter Ikusz)
wrote:

> 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;
>         }