What does ptxas fatal : Cannot take address of function 'xy' mean

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Hi,

I got a cuda project with a lot of template classes. Now I added the following line

Base instance = new Derived()

where Base is an abstract class and Derived implements the abstract class Base.
Derived has template members.
I get the error message given in the header:
ptxas fatal : Cannot take address of function ‘xy’

Am I trying to use something not available in cuda?

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My fault, I didn’t provide an implementation. Seems to be an internal linkage error.
Pure virtual functions work now, for me ;)