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2025-09-13

1257. Instantiation via non-dependent references in uninstantiated templates

Section: 13.8  [temp.res]     Status: open     Submitter: Johannes Schaub     Date: 2011-03-09

The Standard does not appear to specify whether a non-dependent reference to a template specialization in a template definition that is never instantiated causes the implicit instantiation of the referenced specialization.