[boost] Re: Strange gcc 3.2.2-5.8 behavior

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-13 15:55:54

John Eddy wrote:
> Thank you Jonathan and Tony,
>
> Fortunately, the class in which I am using this construct is
> templatized so the initializations as you (Tony) suggested are fine appearing
just
> below the class.  If it weren't a templatized class, doing so would
> produce multiply defined symbol errors.  I suppose the only way around
> that is to have an implementation file which requires a library be
> built, etc. yes? (bummer)

You can often get around this problem by inheriting the static member from a
specialization of a class template.

Jonathan