template specialization for char arrays

[treuss]

Hi,

I'm trying to get template specializations working for char * as well as for char[]. I.e. in the following code the last test does not use the specialization and fails:

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>

template<typename T1, typename T2>
bool compare(const T1& lhs, const T2& rhs)
{
        std::cout << "DEBUG: Using generic template\n";
        return lhs == rhs;
}

template<>
bool compare<const char*, const char*>(const char * const& lhs, const char * const& rhs)
{
        std::cout << "DEBUG: Using template specialization\n";
        return strcmp(lhs, rhs) == 0;
}

int main()
{
        std::string test = "abc";
        if (compare(test, test))
        {
                std::cout << "Test 1 succeeded\n";
        }
        if (compare(test.c_str(), test.c_str()))
        {
                std::cout << "Test 2 succeeded\n";
        }
        if (compare(test.c_str(), "abc"))
        {
                std::cout << "Test 3 succeeded\n";
        }

        return 0;
}

Any hint, what I'm doing wrong?