/* GSInternal Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by: Richard Frith-Macdonald This file is part of the GNUstep Base Library. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02111 USA. */ /* This file defines macros for managing internal (hidden) instance variables * of a public class so that users of the public class don't need to recompile * their code when the class implementation is changed in new versions of the * library. * * The public class MUST contain an instance variable 'id _internal;' to be * used as a pointer to a private class containing the ivars. * * Before including this file, you must define 'GSInternal' to be the name * of your public class with * 'Internal' appended. * eg. if your class is called 'MyClass' then use the following define: * #define GSInternal MyClassInternal * * After including this file you can use the GS_BEGIN_INTERNAL() and * GS_END_INTERNAL() macros to bracket the declaration of the instance * variables. * * You use GS_CREATE_INTERNAL() in your intialiser to create the object * holding the internal instance variables, and GS_DESTROY_INTERNAL() to * get rid of that object (only do this if '_internal' is not nil) in * your -dealloc method. * * Instance variables are referenced using the 'internal->ivar' suntax or * the GSIV(classname,object,ivar) macro. * * If built with CLANG (assumed to support non-fragile instance variables) * rather than GCC, the compiler/runtime can simply declare instance variables * within the implementation file so that they are not part of the public ABI, * in which case the macros here mostly reduce to nothing and the generated * code can be much more efficient. */ #if defined(__GNUC__) /* Code for GCC. */ /* Start declaration of internal ivars. */ #define GS_BEGIN_INTERNAL(name) \ @interface name ## Internal : NSObject \ { \ @public /* Finish declaration of internal ivars. */ #define GS_END_INTERNAL(name) \ } \ @end \ @implementation name ## Internal \ @end /* Create holder for internal ivars. */ #define GS_CREATE_INTERNAL(name) \ _internal = [name ## Internal new]; /* Create holder for internal ivars. */ #define GS_DESTROY_INTERNAL(name) \ DESTROY(_internal); #undef internal #define internal ((GSInternal*)_internal) #undef GSIVar #define GSIVar(X,Y) (((GSInternal*)(X->_internal))->Y) #else /* defined(__GNUC__) */ /* Not GCC, so we assume this is CLANG with support for non-fragile ivars */ #define GS_BEGIN_INTERNAL(name) \ @interface name \ { /* Finish declaration of internal ivars. */ #define GS_END_INTERNAL(name) \ } \ @end /* Create holder for internal ivars (nothing to do). */ #define GS_CREATE_INTERNAL(name) #define GS_DESTROY_INTERNAL(name) /* Define constant to reference internal ivars. */ #undef internal #define internal self #undef GSIVar #define GSIVar(X,Y) ((X)->Y) #endif /* defined(__GNUC__) */