Developing and Porting C and C++ Applications on AIX

10.2. AIX template implementations

The template mechanism provides a way of defining general container types, such as list, vector, and stack, where the specific type of the elements is left as a parameter. Two types of templates can be defined:

Class templates	Specify how individual classes can be constructed.
Function templates	Specify how individual functions can be constructed.

Regardless of the type of template being used, the code is essentially split into three parts:

Template declaration

This is the part of the source code that declares the template class or function. It does not necessarily contain the definition of the class or function, although it may optionally do so. For example, a template declaration may describe a Stack template ...