Re: __weak definition and problems with Obj-C

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 06:46:39PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
> >I sympathize about __weak, but I don't understand what is it trying to
> >do here because I don't have the context in GSConfig.h. It looks to
> >me like it is part of a nested cpp if statement, which perhaps is going
> >the wrong way because it does not know how to handle NetBSD or it fails
> >to detect NetBSD. Nevertheless, defining symbols in the __ space should
> >be protected or avoided.
> >
> >Don't blame NetBSD though, because these are system headers...
> 
> after some research, I carry the proof. __weak (and __strong) is an
> Objective-C keyword instroduced when Apple introduced garbage
> collection.
> Thus the change from 6.1.5 header to current header essentially
> breaks objective-c.

This is pretty much irrelevant. The C standard is very clear on what is
implementation namespace or not. GNUstep is wrong. Period.

Joerg