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authorPhil Edwards <pme@sourceware.cygnus.com>2000-07-19 20:20:51 +0000
committerPhil Edwards <pme@gcc.gnu.org>2000-07-19 20:20:51 +0000
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howto.html: Update.
2000-07-19 Phil Edwards <pme@sourceware.cygnus.com> * docs/18_support/howto.html: Update. From-SVN: r35138
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2000-07-19 Phil Edwards <pme@sourceware.cygnus.com>
+
+ * docs/18_support/howto.html: Update.
+
2000-07-19 Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@milou.soma.redhat.com>
Internal consistency checks.....
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/docs/18_support/howto.html b/libstdc++-v3/docs/18_support/howto.html
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
<TITLE>libstdc++-v3 HOWTO: Chapter 18</TITLE>
<LINK REL="home" HREF="http://sources.redhat.com/libstdc++/docs/18_support/">
<LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="../lib3styles.css">
-<!-- $Id: howto.html,v 1.2 2000/07/07 21:13:28 pme Exp $ -->
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</HEAD>
<BODY>
@@ -89,6 +89,18 @@
<TT>foo(0);</TT> instead of <TT>foo(NULL);</TT>, then you're back
where you started.
</P>
+ <P><B>Added Note:</B> When we contacted Dr. Meyers to ask permission to
+ print this stuff, it prompted him to run this code through current
+ compilers to see what the state of the art is with respect to member
+ template functions. He posted
+ <A HREF="http://www.deja.com/threadmsg_md.xp?AN=644660779.1&CONTEXT=964036823.871301239">an
+ article to Usenet</A> after discovering that the code above is not
+ valid! Even though it has no data members, it still needs a
+ user-defined constructor (which means that the class needs a type name
+ after all). The ctor can have an empty body; it just needs to be
+ there. (Stupid requirement? We think so too, and this will probably
+ be changed in the language itself.)
+ </P>
<P>Return <A HREF="#top">to top of page</A> or
<A HREF="../faq/index.html">to the FAQ</A>.
</P>
@@ -250,7 +262,7 @@
Comments and suggestions are welcome, and may be sent to
<A HREF="mailto:pme@sources.redhat.com">Phil Edwards</A> or
<A HREF="mailto:gdr@egcs.cygnus.com">Gabriel Dos Reis</A>.
-<BR> $Id: howto.html,v 1.2 2000/07/07 21:13:28 pme Exp $
+<BR> $Id: howto.html,v 1.3 2000/07/11 21:45:07 pme Exp $
</EM></P>