Visualize Template Instantiations - Understand your Template Bugs
summary
A tool called Templator visualizes C++ template instantiation and overload selection by building instantiation contexts from Eclipse CDT parsing and rendering them as an interactive click-through instantiation view. It reproduces which template and overload the compiler picks (useful for pop-quiz examples), shows transitive instantiations like vector<bool> specializations, and integrates into Cevelop. Work is preview quality: it solves many examples without compiling but misses some edge cases (auto, heavy TMP, or beyond CDT visibility).
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Template visualization intro
- 4:05Template instantiation demo
- 7:02Overload resolution quiz
- 9:15Standard library specializations
- 11:24Advanced template debugging
- 13:33Summary and tool capabilities
- 14:37Q&A on tool limits
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