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<P><EM>This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21
  Core Issues List revision 118b.
  See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official
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<P>2025-09-28</P>
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<A NAME="993"></A><H4>993.
  
Freedom to perform instantiation at the end of the translation unit
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<B>Section: </B>13.8.4.1&#160; [<A href="https://wg21.link/temp.point">temp.point</A>]
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 <B>Status: </B>C++11
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 <B>Submitter: </B>John Spicer
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 <B>Date: </B>6 March, 2009<BR>


<P>[Voted into the WP at the March, 2011 meeting.]</P>

<P>The intent is that it is a permissible implementation technique to
do template instantiation at the end of a translation unit rather than
at an actual point of instantiation.  This idea is not reflected in the
current rules, however.</P>

<P><B>Proposed resolution (January, 2011):</B></P>

<P>Change 13.8.4.1 [<A href="https://wg21.link/temp.point#7">temp.point</A>] paragraph 7 as follows:</P>

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A specialization for a function template, a member function template,
or of a member function or static data member of a class template may
have multiple points of instantiations within a translation unit<INS>,
and in addition to the points of instantiation described above, for
any such specialization that has a point of instantiation within the
translation unit, the end of the translation unit is also considered a
point of instantiation</INS>.  A specialization for a class
template...

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