On 18/01/2008, Dragan Milenkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for clarification and info. I believe issue #34 addresses exactly > what we're talking about. > > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_closed.html#34
Aha, yes ... but strangely that seems to have been closed as Not-A-Defect for a long time: the templates book is newer and says the standard isn't clear. If the standard does clearly say an instantiation is required, GCC should accept the code even without "weird" being declared, because the call should cause an instantiation, and declare "func" I'm ignoring the fact that func is only declared in your example, not defined - to call it there must be a definition between the declaration and point of instantiation - but turning the friend declaration into a definition doesn't change GCC's behaviour. I wonder why EDG rejects it . > Hey... the current number of issues is kinda scary... :-O Everyone has issues, even C++ :) Jon
