From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Feb  5 14:42:10 2001
Subject: Sun C++ template closure patch
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, khan@xraylith.wisc.edu
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:42:02 -0600

On  4-Feb-2001, Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU> wrote:

| Sun C++ uses a template repository mechanism, and that usually implies
| that you need template closure when building the archive libraries with
| template instantiations. Not unlike using -frepo with GNU C++, which
| similarly needs closure, albeit using a slightly different manner. 
| 
| When compilers start implementing the `export' keyword, we're certainly
| going to need mechanisms such as this.
| 
| Regards,
| Mumit
| 
| This patch adds Sun compiler support for template closures in archive
| libraries.

I applied these changes.  They should be checked in later today.

Thanks,

jwe