On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:14:36PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 06:46:39PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > >>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. > > This is Objective-C, not GNUstep. thus, your "period" is perhaps > nothing more than a semicolon. Perhaps Objective-c is not as > widespread as I would like to be in the free software world, but > acting like this is of no help.
This keyword is at best ill-conceived. I don't know if a secondary form exists like the much more sensible approach taken by C11. A possible workaround is to make sure that ObjC headers are included after system headers and #undef the macro first. Joerg
