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In article <9512071347.AA29456@lts.sel.alcatel.de> James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763 <kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de> writes:

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

What about 14.4 (April DWP):

  14.4  Explicit instantiation                           [temp.explicit]

1 A class or function specialization can be explicitly instantiated from
  its template.

2 The syntax for explicit instantiation is:
          explicit-instantiation:
                  template declaration
  Where the unqualifier-id in the declaration shall  be  a  template-id.
  [Example:
          template class Array<char>;

          template void sort<char>(Array<char>&);
   --end example]

[etc]

Greg.
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