------- Additional Comments From sebor at roguewave dot com 2005-06-30 23:36 ------- Sorry about the duplicate PR. I searched Bugzilla for an existing report but obviously not thoroughly enough.
I'm afraid I disagree with the analysis in both PRs. From 14.7.2, p7: The explicit instantiation of a class template specialization implies the instantiation of all of its members not previously explicitly specialized in the translation unit containing the explicit instantiation. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22263