[Insight-developers] MRCImageIO & Visual Studio 6.0

[Bill Lorensen]

I think we have done a) in the past.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
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> Hi Brad,
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>
> Visual Studio 6.0 seems to be having trouble with
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> the template instantiations from itkMRCImageIO:
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> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewBuildError.php?buildid=635480
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>
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> :\Dashboards\My Tests\InsightContinuous\Code\Review\itkMRCImageIO.cxx(516) :
> error C2893: Failed to specialize function template 'void __thiscall
> itk::Local::MRCImageIO::UpdateHeaderWithMinMaxMean(const TPixelType *)'
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>         With the following template arguments:
>         'unsigned char'
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>
>
> I believe that VS6 can't resolve templated functions
> just based on the type of the function argument.
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>
>
> Options to consider are:
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>
> A)  instantiating it as:
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>         f<T>( T arg )
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> or
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> B)  Making that function to be a
>     templated method member of a class.
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>
> Do you have any preferences between these two options ?
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> (or maybe other options...?)
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>
>
>     Thanks
>
>
>        Luis
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>
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