jorma.tolonen@mailbox.swipnet.se (Jorma Tolonen) writes:

>Is it OK to use void as an argument in a template-class.

Yes, so long as the template class doesn't use the type
argument in a way that is not allowed for `void', it should
be perfectly OK.

>I believe that a static member function had no guarantee that the linkage
>was the same as for C-functions. Is that still so, according to the upcoming
>standard?

Most definitely.  Static member functions must be allowed to have
different linkage conventions than C functions, because the compiler
must support overloaded static member functions.  All existing C++
compilers that I know of use a different linkage convention for
static member functions than they do for extern "C" functions.

I suspect the question you were really trying to ask was about the
*calling convention* of static member functions, not their linkage.
I'm afraid that question is yet to be resolved.

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Is it OK to use void as an argument in a template-class. Example:

template <class Pointer>
class Base
{
public:
   Base() { }
   virtual ~Base() { }
   virtual void DoIt() = 0;
   static void func(Pointer* client_data) { ((Base*)client_data)->DoIt(); }
};

Base<void> test;   // legal?

This is to be used in a general template class for callback functionality.

Another question while I am at it:

I believe that a static member function had no guarantee that the linkage
was the same as for C-functions. Is that still so, according to the upcoming
standard?

/jorma
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