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

[Markus Hitter]

Am 07.02.2004 um 00:33 schrieb Greg Parker:

> How many places does GNUstep actually use struct objc_super's fields? 
> If it's only one or two places then it might be easier to move the 
> conditional to GNUstep's source.
>
> #if __GCC_VERSION__ >= 3.5   // or however you spell this
>    my_objc_super->super_class = foo;
> #else
>    my_objc_super->class = foo;
> #endif
>
> The choice seems to be compiler-version-check (for those who want to 
> build on an older compiler) versus language-check (for those who want 
> to build on both ObjC and ObjC++).

Thanks, Greg, I just wanted to add exactly this to the thread. 
runtime-version-check instead of compiler-version-check, to be more 
exactly :-)

There are lots of functions to abstract the runtime already since we 
have two different runtimes anyways. This comes in handy here.

Compatibility with an additional set of compilers is well an argument 
for such a minor change in GNUstep-base, IMHO.


Markus




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