Templated Functions.. ERROR: template-id does not match any template declaration

Question

I have written a function template and an explicitly specialized templated function which simply takes in 3 arguments and calculates the bi

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem and fixed it by using typedef:

typedef char * charPtr;
template <>
void Max(charPtr &a, charPtr &b, charPtr &c)

Answer 2

You need to take the pointers by reference:

template <> 
void Max(char*& a,char*& b,char*& c) 

That said, it would be better not to use an explicit specialization and instead just overload the function:

void Max(char* a, char* b, char* c)

It's almost always a bad idea to specialize function templates. For more, see Herb Sutter's "Why Not Specialize Function Templates?"