[Boost-users] Re: Question

Sliwa, Przemyslaw (London) wrote:

Thanks for help,

I have an additional question. Does anyone know why the following program gives different output on VC++ 6 and VC++ 2003 NET? It is pretty strange, isn't it?

<snip> VC6 is pretty strange, I agree. In particular, it doesn't handle functions with non-type template parameters well. The following code should demonstrate the problem. (Hopefully I'm remembering the problem correctly -- I don't have VC6 installed on this machine.) template<int I> void foo() { std::cout << I << '\n'; } int main() { foo<1>(); foo<2>(); return 0; } If you must use VC6, avoid non-type template parameters for function templates. -- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com