PRB: C2059 When Declaring Friend Template Functions in a Class

CAUSE

This is a relatively new language feature that is currently not supported by the Visual C++ 4.0 compiler. For example, the following code will generate the errors noted above.

Sample Code

/* Compile options needed: none
*/ 
class A;
template <class T> void f(T, A *a)  { a->x; }

class A
{
private:
   int x;
   template <class T> friend void f(T, A*);
};

int main(void)
{
   A a;
   f(5, &a);
   f(1.5, &a);
   return 0;
}