The function template has only one definition for various types.
But its not the case for the function over loading.

For eg.,

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "stdio.h"
#include "windows.h"
#include<iostream.h>
#include "test.h"

template < class T>
T add(T a, T b)
{
 T c;

 c= a+b;
 
 return c;
}

int main()
{

 cout << add<int>(1,2)<<endl;
 cout << add<float>(1.0,2.0)endl;

return 0;

}


But for the function overloading there has to be different datatypes defined for each functions.