[cfe-dev] A question related to bug 5866.

[John McCall]

On May 26, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Enea Zaffanella wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I was struggling against friend declarations of template function 
> specializations, i.e., something strongly related to the following 
> (resolved) bug:
> 
>   http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=5866
> 
> The problem we have is the following: when visiting a friend declaration 
> such as the one used in the bug report above
> 
>     friend streamsize
>     __copy_streambufs_eof<>(__streambuf_type*,
>                             __streambuf_type*, bool&);
> 
> we call method getFriendDecl() and obtain a FunctionDecl*,
> but when querying this pointer using method
>     bool FunctionDecl::isFunctionTemplateSpecialization()
> the answer turns out to be negative.
> 
> Is this a bug, or are we just calling the method above out of its 
> specification? Are there other ways to check if a friend declaration is 
> referring to a template function specialization?

It sounds like a bug.

John.