• Heinz (1/1) Apr 01 2008 I think it has been asked before....can a function template be exported ...
• BCS (7/8) Apr 01 2008 currently no.
• Robert Fraser (4/18) Apr 01 2008 Funny you mention that since that has been suggested and even worked out...
• BCS (8/33) Apr 02 2008 Almost, but not quite, I'm thinking more along the lines of thunk

Heinz <malagana15 yahoo.es> writes:

I think it has been asked before....can a function template be exported in a
dll?

BCS <BCS pathlink.com> writes:

Heinz wrote:
 I think it has been asked before....can a function template be exported in a
dll?

currently no.

theoretically....

If you were able to put a compiler in the DLL and serialize the parsed 
template then the only thing left over would be to suck out the type 
info from the calling code for the compiler....


Dang you! --> http://xkcd.com/356/

Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:

BCS wrote:
 Heinz wrote:
 I think it has been asked before....can a function template be 
 exported in a dll?

 
 currently no.
 
 theoretically....
 
 If you were able to put a compiler in the DLL and serialize the parsed 
 template then the only thing left over would be to suck out the type 
 info from the calling code for the compiler....
 
 
 Dang you! --> http://xkcd.com/356/

Funny you mention that since that has been suggested and even worked out 
as a solution by Burton Radons:

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=11436

BCS <BCS pathlink.com> writes:

Robert Fraser wrote:
 BCS wrote:
 
 Heinz wrote:

 I think it has been asked before....can a function template be 
 exported in a dll?


 currently no.

 theoretically....

 If you were able to put a compiler in the DLL and serialize the parsed 
 template then the only thing left over would be to suck out the type 
 info from the calling code for the compiler....


 Dang you! --> http://xkcd.com/356/

 
 
 Funny you mention that since that has been suggested and even worked out 
 as a solution by Burton Radons:
 
 http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.annou
ce&article_id=11436 
 

Almost, but not quite, I'm thinking more along the lines of thunk 
generation without the original code available. I'd "only" need access 
to the the symbol tables of the types the template accesses and some 
partially processed template code. Also rather than drop out an object 
file and then link that in, I'm thinking of actually compiling directly 
to RAM and then returning a function pointer. As I said, close, but not 
quite the same.