Can't build current KDevelop

[Richard Dale]

On Saturday 20 November 2004 10:52, Richard Dale wrote:
> It's a problem with the 'extension' template class in kdevplugin.h:
>
>     template <class Extension>
>     Extension *extension(const QString &serviceType, const QString
> &constraint = "")
>     {
>         KDevPlugin *plugin = extension(serviceType, constraint);
>         if (plugin)
>             return static_cast<Extension*>(plugin);
>         else
>             return 0;
>     }
I've been looking at this code, but I'm not enough of a C++ expert to see why 
this code:

KDevAppFrontend * RDBDebugger::RubyDebuggerPart::appFrontend( )
{
    return extension<KDevAppFrontend>("KDevelop/AppFrontend");
}

Isn't equivalent to using a static_cast?

KDevAppFrontend * RDBDebugger::RubyDebuggerPart::appFrontend( )
{
    return static_cast<KDevAppFrontend*>(extension("KDevelop/AppFrontend"));
}

I'm using gcc 3.2.2:
gcc version 3.2.2 20030217 (Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 3.2.2-2a)

Is there a bug in its template handling of some sort?

-- Richard