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Re: PATCH: Remove unnecessary ObjC declaration
On 25 Oct 2004, at 19.47, Timothy J.Wood wrote:
On Oct 25, 2004, at 6:43 PM, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
Whenever an ObjC program declares a class, e.g.,
@interface Foo
:
@end
the compiler currently synthesizes
extern objc_object *_Foo;
Maybe this used to be used for constant string instances? Even so
(and it seems unlikely), it would be better if the name it generated
couldn't be generated by a user program (like ".objc_class_name_Foo").
My current hypothesis is that '_Foo' used to be old name for
'.objc_class_name_Foo', before someone noticed the potential for name
collisions...
--Zem