Explicit Template Instantiation

[Garrett Kajmowicz]

I'm working on an embedded version of the C++ standard library (see
cxx.uclibc.org) and am trying to clean up a few items in the code. 
Specifically, I am looking for a way to force an application linked
against the library to use the version of a template provided in the
library, if it is available.

Since the C++ standard library is almost entirely templates,
-fno-implicit-templates cannot be expected to be used in a production
system because of traditional user practices.

As such, I'be been finding ways of forcing certain code into the library
(by making a dummy function and creating objects of the desire type inside).

Yet for some reason I am unable to get the library to link against the
version in the library.  I've tried stripping it out of the application to
no avail.

Suggestions on this theme?

Thanks.

-       Garrett Kajmowicz