overloading friend operator<< for template class

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Published on 2011-01-11T16:45:54Z Indexed on 2011/01/11 16:53 UTC
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Hello, I have read couple of the question regarding my problem on stackoverflow now, and none of it seems to solve my problem. Or I maybe have done it wrong... The overloaded << if I make it into an inline function. But how do I make it work in my case?

warning: friend declaration std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream&, const D<classT>&)' declares a non-template function

warning: (if this is not what you intended, make sure the function template has already been declared and add <> after the function name here) -Wno-non-template-friend disables this warning

/tmp/cc6VTWdv.o:uppgift4.cc:(.text+0x180): undefined reference to operator<<(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&, D<int> const&)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

template <class T>
T my_max(T a, T b)
{
   if(a > b)      
      return a;
   else
      return b;
}

template <class classT>
class D
{
public:
   D(classT in)
      : d(in) {};
   bool operator>(const D& rhs) const;
   classT operator=(const D<classT>& rhs);

   friend ostream& operator<< (ostream & os, const D<classT>& rhs);
private:
   classT d;
};


int main()
{

   int i1 = 1;
   int i2 = 2;
   D<int> d1(i1);
   D<int> d2(i2);

   cout << my_max(d1,d2) << endl;
   return 0;
}

template <class classT>
ostream& operator<<(ostream &os, const D<classT>& rhs)
{
   os << rhs.d;
   return os;
}

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