[libobjc] May I tweak objc-api.h?

Ziemowit Laski zlaski@apple.com
Fri Feb 6 22:01:00 GMT 2004


On 6 Feb, 2004, at 13.10, Andrew Pinski wrote:

> On Feb 6, 2004, at 12:52, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
>
>> Specifically,
>>
>>   typedef struct objc_super {
>>     id      self;                           /* Id of the object 
>> sending
>>                                                 the message. */
>>     Class class;                              /* Object's super 
>> class. */
>>   } Super, *Super_t;
>>
>> As you may guess, C++ is not too crazy about using 'class'
>> as an identifier.  In the past, I hacked Apple's ObjC++
>> compiler to accept this. :-(  Now, though, I'm working on
>> putting ObjC++ into the FSF, where it should behave more sanely.
>>
>> (Turns out that our NeXT headers have exactly the same problem,
>> and I'm hoping to be able to tweak them as well.)
>>
>> So, do you think it would be OK to rename 'class' above to, say, 
>> 'super_class'?
>
> This is okay with me, just make sure that you tweak it every where it
> is referenced.

Kewl.  I'll make a libobjc patch.

--Zem
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