Missing explicit instantiations in libstdc++ (was Re: Unreviewed

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Tuesday, December 04, 2001 09:45:21 AM -0800 Benjamin Kosnik 
<bkoz@redhat.com> wrote:

>
>> You don't fully explain your reasoning.  However, this change seems a bit
>> pessimistic.  If you want to test implicit instantiation, why not just do
>> it on systems with weak linking semantics and provide the explicit needed
>> when this isn't available?  We already have _GLIBCPP_SUPPORTS_WEAK in
>> config.h, so this is trivial to implement.
>
> I leave it to the g++ testsuite to test implicit instantiations. It is
> not the intention of the 22_locale/*.cc tests to deal with instantiations
> of any type. Instead, they should test that custom facets can be compiled
> correctly by the headers.

Agreed; testing implicit instantiation is the province of the compiler,
not the library.

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