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Specialization of template after instantiation?

Asked 2009-12-12T19:59:36.153
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My full code is too long, but here is a snippet that will reflect the essence of my problem:

class BPCFGParser {
  public:

  ...
  ...

  class Edge {
    ...
    ...
  };


  class ActiveEquivClass {
    ...
    ...
  };

  class PassiveEquivClass {
    ...
    ...
  };

  struct EqActiveEquivClass {
    ...
    ...
  };

  struct EqPassiveEquivClass {
    ...
    ...
  };



  unordered_map<ActiveEquivClass, Edge *, hash<ActiveEquivClass>, EqActiveEquivClass> discovered_active_edges;
  unordered_map<PassiveEquivClass, Edge *, hash<PassiveEquivClass>, EqPassiveEquivClass> discovered_passive_edges;

};

namespace std {


template <>
class hash<BPCFGParser::ActiveEquivClass>
{

    public:
        size_t operator()(const BPCFGParser::ActiveEquivClass & aec) const {

        }
};

template <>
class hash<BPCFGParser::PassiveEquivClass>
{

    public:
        size_t operator()(const BPCFGParser::PassiveEquivClass & pec) const {

        }
};

}

When I compile this code, I get the following errors:

In file included from BPCFGParser.cpp:3,
                 from experiments.cpp:2:
BPCFGParser.h:408: error: specialization of ‘std::hash<BPCFGParser::ActiveEquivClass>’     after instantiation
BPCFGParser.h:408: error: redefinition of ‘class                 std::hash<BPCFGParser::ActiveEquivClass>’
/usr/include/c++/4.3/tr1_impl/functional_hash.h:44: error: previous definition of     ‘class std::hash<BPCFGParser::ActiveEquivClass>’
BPCFGParser.h:445: error: specialization of     ‘std::hash<BPCFGParser::PassiveEquivClass>’ after instantiation
BPCFGParser.h:445: error: redefinition of ‘class std::hash<BPCFGParser::PassiveEquivClass>’
/usr/include/c++/4.3/tr1_impl/functional_hash.h:44: error: previous definition of     ‘class std::hash<BPCFGParser::PassiveEquivClass>’

Now I have to specialize std::hash for these classes

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Try moving the hash<> template specialization code before the BPCFGParser class declaration. The error means that hash is expanded based on std::hash defined at /usr/include/c++/4.3/tr1_impl/functional_hash.h; So your specialization is not used before the instantiation. Ideally, your specialization code should be made available for the compiler before the template is expanded.

answered 2010-04-13T07:59:52.590

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