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Clang issues an error for the following code, whereas the GNU compiler does not. Based on the standard, I think that an implicit instantiation should not occur because the compiler is not yet allocating an object, and that would mean that Clang is incorrectly
issuing an error and GNU is correct to not issue any error.<br>
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Is my understanding correct?<br>
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<span>> cat t.cpp<br>
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<div>template <typename T> class A;<br>
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<div>template <typename T><br>
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<div>struct B {<br>
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<div> static A<int> M;<br>
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<div>};<br>
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<div>template <typename T> A<int> B<T>::M;<br>
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<div>> g++ -c t.cpp<br>
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<div>> clang -c t.cpp<br>
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t.cpp:8:36: error: implicit instantiation of undefined template 'A<int>'<br>
<div>template <typename T> A<int> B<T>::M;<br>
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<div> ^<br>
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<div>t.cpp:1:29: note: template is declared here<br>
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<div>template <typename T> class A;<br>
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<div> ^<br>
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<span>1 warning and 1 error generated.</span></div>
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Thanks,</div>
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Troy<br>
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