[cfe-dev] Explicit instantiation with body?

[John McCall]

On Jun 19, 2013, at 9:15 AM, Larisse Voufo <lvoufo at google.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, I have noticed that Clang currently allows the following program:
> 
> template<typename T> T f() { return 13; }
> template int f() { return 1; }
> 
> It essentially parses the body of the explicit instantiation only to ignore it.
> Was this a conscious decision?

No;  please file a bug.  You cannot define a function in an explicit instantiation.

> GCC 4.6.3 rejects the program with "expected ‘;’ before ‘{’ token".

Well, hopefully we can do better than that.

John.