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Re: [bind] MSVC 7.1 problem

by Peter Dimov-5 :: Rate this Message:

Johan Torp:

> The following code compiles fine in MSVC 8.0 and gcc 3.4.4 but MSVC 7.1
> renders the errors found below.
>
> struct X {
> template<class T> void bar() {}
> };
>
> void foo() {
> X x;
> boost::bind(&X::bar<int>, x);
> }
>
> I'm using boost 1.34.0. Is this a known problem of MSVC 7x?

Function templates have been known to confuse earlier versions of MSVC. I
don't think that this specific problem has been known, but now it is. :-)
The usual workaround is to help the compiler by using

void (X::*pmf) () = &X::bar<int>;

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