Function overloading before and after a template class

>Submitter-Id: net >Originator:Nicolas Burrus >Organization: Ensta >Confidential: no >Synopsis: If a function foo is defined before declaring a template class >A, overloaded version of foo defined after the class declaration will not >be available with

static_cast behavior with subclasses when default constructor available

>Submitter-Id: net >Originator:Nicolas Burrus >Organization: LRDE >Confidential: no >Synopsis: static_cast behavior with subclasses when default constructor >available >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Category: c++ >Class: