Re: [boost] Re: Re: More Boost.Test problems

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-20 06:56:33

From: "Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy_at_[hidden]>

> > Ah. Well, I guess that's what's happening. I'm still surprised that it
> > should be instantiating unused templates; I would think huge amounts of
my
> > own code would be broken if that were the case.
>
> gcc fails to compile following code:
>
> // ****************** start ******************
> template<typename FPT, typename ToleranceSource>
> inline bool
> compare_and_continue_impl( FPT left, FPT right, ToleranceSource
> tolerance_src )
> {
>     close_at_tolerance<FPT> pred( tolerance_src );
> }
> // ****************** end ******************
>
> Here an error:
> a.cpp: In function `bool compare_and_continue_impl(FPT, FPT,
> ToleranceSource)':
> a.cpp:6: parse error before `>' token
>
> Does it correct?

"Is it correct?" Quite possibly. If that's the whole translation unit, then
yes, it's quite correct. There's no definition for close_at_tolerance.

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