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In article <4a4io5$s0v@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> bkeefe@seas.gwu.edu
(Brian J. Keefe) writes:

|> The online MSVC4 manual says to use syntax like:

|> template Stack<int,6>;

|> to force class template instantiation for all operations.
|> I did not find this in the ARM. Is it ANSI compliant?

No.  The standard offers no means of forcing template instantiation,
probably because forcing instantiation has no utility.

If you use the template, it is instantiated.  You don't need to force
instantiation.  If you don't use it, why do you want to instantiate
it?  Just to have extra code (which is never called) in your
application.

Note that in most modern implementations, if you use a template in a
library, the implementation will instantiate the template and include
the code of the instantiation in the library automatically.
(Historically, with older link-time instantiation compilers, like
CFront, you had to do this manually.  But while I was very happy to
have CFront back then, it is hardly what I would call state of the art
today.)

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