libs-base/Source/GSInternal.h
rfm 963ffae92d remove publicly visible ivars for future abi stability.
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/* GSInternal
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by: Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
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__) */