Re: ambiguous call to overloaded function

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.it>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:18:08 +0200
Message-ID:
<#dS0au4CIHA.3848@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
<cablepuff@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:1192037608.968242.295150@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

#ifndef MEDIANDEF_HPP
#define MEDIANDEF_HPP
#include "median.hpp"

template <typename T,
        template <typename ELEM, typename = std::allocator<ELEM> >
        class CONT

void select_sort(CONT<T>& Array, typename CONT<T>::iterator iter,
const int& size, const int& step)
{
printf("Awesomely cool");
}

#endif

template <typename T,
        template <typename ELEM, typename = std::allocator<ELEM> >
        class CONT

extern void select_sort(CONT<T>&, typename CONT<T>::iterator, const
int&, const int&);


I don't understand neither the CONT-thing, nor the use of "extern" in this
context...

However, I've tried that, and it seems to compile fine with VC++7.1:

<code>

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

template <typename ContainerT>
void select_sort( ContainerT & Array, typename ContainerT::iterator iter,
     const int& size, const int& step)
{
 std::cout << "Awesomely cool" << std::endl;
}

int main()
{
 std::vector<int> my_vec(4, 4);
 select_sort(my_vec, my_vec.begin(), 4, 2);

 return 0;
}

</code>

....but I don't know if the template declaration I wrote is exactly what you
had in your mind...(maybe I have missed something...).

Giovanni

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