Incorrect overload resolution for 2-argument functions

Question

Let\'s take the following example program:

#include 

namespace half_float
{
    template struct half_expr {};

    struct hal         


        

Answer 1

I just tried your code, and I figured out what was wrong with it.

Since you haven't implemented half::sin and half::atan2, the linker will throw an error anyway. So if you implement the methods half::sin and half::atan2, that should solve it (I implemented them by letting them return an empty half, which is, of course, meaningless).

After I took that step (providing a (meaningless) implementation of the two required methods), the error messages almost magically disappeared.

Maybe this isn't the solution to your problem, as I'm using GCC, and not VS.

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EDIT: I just tried the sample I used with G++ with visual studio, which gave me a peculier error message. Provided the strangeness of the error, and the code working with GCC, I must conclude that this is a bug in VC2012.