howto.html: Update.

2000-07-19 Phil Edwards <pme@sourceware.cygnus.com> * docs/18_support/howto.html: Update. From-SVN: r35138

howto.html: Update.
2000-07-19 Phil Edwards <pme@sourceware.cygnus.com> * docs/18_support/howto.html: Update. From-SVN: r35138
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+2000-07-19  Phil Edwards  <pme@sourceware.cygnus.com>
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+	* docs/18_support/howto.html:  Update.
+
 2000-07-19  Benjamin Kosnik  <bkoz@milou.soma.redhat.com>

 	Internal consistency checks.....

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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   <TITLE>libstdc++-v3 HOWTO:  Chapter 18</TITLE>
 <LINK REL="home" HREF="http://sources.redhat.com/libstdc++/docs/18_support/">
 <LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="../lib3styles.css">
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 </HEAD>
 <BODY>

@@ -89,6 +89,18 @@
      <TT>foo(0);</TT> instead of <TT>foo(NULL);</TT>, then you're back
      where you started.
   </P>
+   <P><B>Added Note:</B>  When we contacted Dr. Meyers to ask permission to
+      print this stuff, it prompted him to run this code through current
+      compilers to see what the state of the art is with respect to member
+      template functions.  He posted
+      <A HREF="http://www.deja.com/threadmsg_md.xp?AN=644660779.1&CONTEXT=964036823.871301239">an
+      article to Usenet</A> after discovering that the code above is not
+      valid!  Even though it has no data members, it still needs a
+      user-defined constructor (which means that the class needs a type name
+      after all).  The ctor can have an empty body; it just needs to be
+      there.  (Stupid requirement?  We think so too, and this will probably
+      be changed in the language itself.)
+   </P>
   <P>Return <A HREF="#top">to top of page</A> or
      <A HREF="../faq/index.html">to the FAQ</A>.
   </P>
@@ -250,7 +262,7 @@
 Comments and suggestions are welcome, and may be sent to
 <A HREF="mailto:pme@sources.redhat.com">Phil Edwards</A> or
 <A HREF="mailto:gdr@egcs.cygnus.com">Gabriel Dos Reis</A>.
-<BR> $Id: howto.html,v 1.2 2000/07/07 21:13:28 pme Exp $
+<BR> $Id: howto.html,v 1.3 2000/07/11 21:45:07 pme Exp $
 </EM></P>