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The templates supplied with EPICS base are in $(EPICS)/base/src/cxxTemplates
In Stroustrups's "The C++ Programming Language" Appendix A: r.14.9
(ANSI/ISO resolutions) a mechanism is described for the explicit
instantiation of template member functions (that are not inline).
At this time some compilers do not support this mechanism (and use
a template database or smart linker instead). Other compilers
(such as g++) provide only limited support for other forms of
instantiation.
Since there is no defacto standard mechanism for instatiating
templates at this time we are defining the preprocessor flag
EXPL_TEMPL in the build system when the compiler supports
explicit instantiation.
EPICS codes that use templates may need to include a code block
as follow that instantiates the template only once into each
program.
#include <classXYZ.h>
#include <templXXX.h>
#include <templXXX.cc>
//
// if the compiler supports explicit instantiation of
// template member functions
//
#if defined(EXPL_TEMPL)
//
// From Stroustrups's "The C++ Programming Language"
// Appendix A: r.14.9
//
// This explicitly instantiates the template class's member
// functions into "templInst.o"
//
template class templXXX <classXYZ>;
#endif
Jeff Hill 3-6-97
johill@lanl.gov