I am using this weekend to catch up on a number of patches that have been pending. I'll report back what I find on this.
GC On Thursday, July 16, 2009, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 Jul 2009, at 09:30, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: > > > But ... going back to the issue of avoiding changes to ivars breaking ABI in > future releases ... the approach I currently favor is having a *single* ivar > in the public class. This is a private id variable referring to an instance > of a private class which is used to hold the real ivars. > > > I really don't like this approach. It makes the code difficult to read, > destroys locality of reference, and hurts performance. > > Please, please, please, can other people test my non-fragile ivars patch so > that we can get rid of ugly hacks like this and just not declare any ivars in > the headers. I posted it months ago and have had absolutely no reports of > testing yet. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnustep-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev > -- Gregory Casamento Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant ## GNUstep Chief Maintainer yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell), (301)362-9640 (Home) _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
