Hello, a better title would have been "Attributes for explicit template instantiation are ignored after an implicit template instantiation occurred". There is also a small mistake in my example. The declaration for the create function should look like "... inline A<int>* create() ...". Now concentrating on case one of the example (not using the extern template extension): - I should note that this compiles fine with MSVC (although I do not want to take it as a reference implementation and I cannot really use it for other reasons). - In my opinion it makes sense to give attributes on an explicit template instantiation precedence. What should I do in the case I receive no answer? Bugreport? Wishlist? Maybe you can also point me to the code, where the attributes are actually assigned in the GCC code. I already found the point, where the warning is generated in attribs.c, but I do not really have a clue - simply commenting that if block in the hope, that the attributes are then assigned did not help, only the warning disappeared. Thanks for your help, Martin -- ============================================================= Martin Lederhilger Convergent Information Technologies GmbH Schulstrasse 2 A 4053 Haid ++43-720 720 522 (phone) ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (email) www.convergent-it.at (web) ============================================================= Sitz: 4053 Haid, Österreich, FB-Nr: FN317229p Landgericht Linz Geschäftsführer Dr.-Ing Christof Eberst, UID: ATU64458134
