In other words, why does this compile fine :
template<typename Type>
class A{
public:
void f();
};
class B{
friend void A<int>::f();
};
template<>
void A<int>::f(){
B* var = new B();
}
While this doesn't :
template<typename Type>
class A{
public:
void f();
};
template<typename Type> // B is now a templated class
class B{
friend void A<Type>::f(); // Friending is done using B templated type
};
template<>
void A<int>::f(){
B<int>* var = new B<int>(); // var is now declared using int as its templated type
}
For the second code snippet, compiler (gcc 6.2, no special flags) says:
main.cpp: In instantiation of ‘class B<int>’:
main.cpp:14:28: required from here
main.cpp:9:15: error: prototype for ‘void A<int>::f()’ does not match any in class ‘A<int>’
friend void A<Type>::f();
^~~~~~~
main.cpp:13:6: error: candidate is: void A<Type>::f() [with Type = int]
void A<int>::f(){
As I understand it, in the second code snippet, when declaring var the compiler should parse B class declaration, replace the Type used in the friend declaration by int, and everything should work fine. What am I missing?
EDIT : comments below have pointed out that the second code snippet seems to compile correctly with clang and Visual C++ 2015
An explicit instantiation of B<int>
before it is used in A<int>::f()
resolves this problem. I assume GCC tries an implicit instantiation of B<int>
in the definition of A<int>::f()
. But the definition of A<int>::f()
is not finished and GCC 'looses' the friend declaration. It looks like a compiler problem.
template<typename Type>
class A
{
public:
void f();
};
template<typename Type> // B is now a templated class
class B
{
friend void A<Type>::f(); // Friending is done using B templated type
};
template
class B<int>; // <= explicit instantiation, that works
template<>
void A<int>::f()
{
B<int>* var = new B<int>();
}
Specializing template class
member function without specializing whole template class
is special case when you are allowed to specialize non- template
member function, so maybe GCC
is confused, and I don't know the reasons, but somehow you can't declare friendship to specialized non- template
member of template class
. Temporary solution would be to specialize whole class template
for this to work.
//class template A
template<typename Type>
class A{
public:
void f();
};
//class A<int>
template<>
class A<int>{
public:
void f();
};
Then, define A<int>::f
:
For class B:
void A<int>::f(){
B* var = new B();
(void)(var);
}
For template class B
:
void A<int>::f(){
B<int>* var = new B<int>();
(void)(var);
}
But I think Clang
is right here, there should be no problems for such friend declaration. It's probably a bug in GCC
.
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