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Revised Jul 4, 2012

[4.18] What updates were made for the 10/05 release?

9 New FAQs:

• [4.18] What updates were made for the 10/05 release?
  (created)
• [23.3] Should I use protected virtuals instead of public virtuals?
  (created thanks to a question from Neil Morgenstern)
• [23.4] When should someone use private virtuals?
  (created thanks to a question from Neil Morgenstern)
• [35.7] My template function does something special when the template type T is int or std::string; how do I write my template so it uses the special code when T is one of those specific types?
  (created thanks to Victor Bazarov)
• [35.8] Huh? Can you provide an example of template specialization that doesn't use foo and bar?
  (created)
• [35.9] But most of the code in my template function is the same; is there some way to get the benefits of template specialization without duplicating all that source code?
  (created thanks to Victor Bazarov)
• [35.10] All those templates and template specializations must slow down my program, right?
  (created thanks to Victor Bazarov)
• [35.11] So templates are overloading, right?
  (created thanks to Victor Bazarov)
• [35.14] How does the C++ keyword export help with template linker errors? Updated!
  (created thanks to Yechiel Kimchi )

4 Changed FAQs:

• [6.13] Where can I get a copy of the ANSI/ISO C++ standard?
  (added another link to the C++ Standard thanks to Andrew Koenig)
• [35.12] Why can't I separate the definition of my templates class from its declaration and put it inside a .cpp file?
  (added some caveats and pointed people to the newly added FAQ on the export keyword)
• [35.13] How can I avoid linker errors with my template functions? Updated!
  (added some caveats and pointed people to the newly added FAQ on the export keyword)
• [39.6] What should be done with macros that need to paste two tokens together? Updated!
  (capitalized macro name2() to NAME2() to prevent name-collisions)