SAS/C Software: Changes and Enhancements, Release 6.50

Template Support

In Release 6.50, the compiler allows for the generation of automatically instantiated template functions, when the autoinst compiler option is specified. When this option is specified, the compiler uses a "shelled object" format containing the output of the primary compilation and all template functions needed by that compilation. In this release, COOL has been modified to process this new object format and the "shelled" template functions.

When a "shelled object" is encountered by COOL, the primary object deck is processed, and any template function objects are processed if a template function by the same name has not already been processed. This results in the inclusion of the first template function found with a given name.

Note: "shelled objects" are specified in the same manner as any other object deck. [cautend]

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