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Partial Template Specialisation

Started by moagstar Jan 5, 2005 at 7:48 AM 3 replies 1.2k views

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Jan 5, 2005 at 7:48 AM

I'm trying to have some fun with templates, but it seems that MSVC++ 6.0 doesn't want to play nice with me, whenever I try to partially specialise a template class I get an error. Microsofts Support Page (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q240866) was particularly unhelpful in explaining how to overcome the problem...Do I really have to upgrade to VC 7.0? Is it even supported in the newer versions of visual studio?

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snk_kid

Jan 5, 2005 at 8:03 AM

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Original post by moagstar
whenever I try to partially specialise a template class I get an error.

Yes and i'm not surprised because VC++ 6.0 doesn't support partial template specializations, basically VC++ 6.0 is messed up, it has really bad template support, its very non-standard compliant, its STL implementation is hack job & basically broken. Even microsoft themselfs says its bad and suggest to not use it any more.

All in all its time for you to move on skip past 7.0 and get 7.1 or above, VC++ 7.1 compiler is free to download (no IDE) and you can also get vc++2k5 express beta for free (with IDE).