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C++ Templates: The Complete Guide
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C++ Templates: The Complete Guide

by David Vandevoorde, Nicolai M. Josuttis
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
10h 52m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 10. Instantiation

Template instantiation is the process that generates types and functions from generic template definitions.1 The concept of instantiation of C++ templates is fundamental but also somewhat intricate. One of the underlying reasons for this intricacy is that the definitions of entities generated by a template are no longer limited to a single location in the source code. The location of the template, the location where the template is used, and the locations where the template arguments are defined all play a role in the meaning of the entity.

In this chapter we explain how we can organize our source code to enable proper template use. In addition, we survey the various methods that are used by the most popular C++ compilers ...

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