Microsoft KB Archive/216722

= FIX: You receive a C2004 error message when you initiate a class template that uses a function pointer as a template parameter in Visual C++ 6.0 =

Article ID: 216722

Article Last Modified on 9/30/2005

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition

-



This article was previously published under Q216722



SYMPTOMS
When initiating a class template that uses a function pointer as a template parameter, you may receive the following error message:

error C2440: specialization : cannot convert from 'function prototype' to int (__cdecl *)( *)



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section. This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.

For more information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 Visual Studio 6.0 service packs, what, where, why

194295 How to tell that a Visual Studio service pack is installed



Steps to reproduce the behavior
Use the following sample code to recreate the error message. template < class T, int (*pfn)(T *)> class F { public: int Test( T *pb ) { return (*pfn)( pb ); } };

int Bar( int *pb ) { return *pb; }

F f;

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvc600fix kbcpponly kbcompiler kbvs600sp3fix KB216722

-

[mailto:TECHNET@MICROSOFT.COM Send feedback to Microsoft]

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.