Author: theraven
Date: Sun Dec 27 14:54:51 2009
New Revision: 29169

URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep?rev=29169&view=rev
Log:
Added GSBlocks header.  This defines two macros:

DEFINE_BLOCK_TYPE() defines a new block type.
CALL_BLOCK() calls a block.

These use the compiler's native support for blocks if it exists, but otherwise 
implement the lower-level version.  Note that the structure defined by the 
fall-back versions is NOT a complete definition of the block layout, and copies 
of this structure should never be instantiated.

This does not allow non-blocks-aware compiles (like GCC) to create blocks, but 
it does allow them to use blocks.  This means that we can implement things like 
NSArray's -enumerateObjectsUsingBlock: without breaking GCC compatibility.  To 
do so, you'd first need to declare a block type in the header, like this:

DEFINE_BLOCK_TYPE(GSEnumeratorBlock, void, id, NSUInteger, BOOL*);

Then declare the method like this:

- (void)enumerateObjectsUsingBlock: (GSEnumeratorBlock)aBlock;

Finally, implement it like this:

- (void)enumerateObjectsUsingBlock: (GSEnumeratorBlock)aBlock
{
        NSUInteger count = 0;
        BOOL shouldStop = NO;
        for (obj in self)
        {
                CALL_BLOCK(aBlock, obj, count++, &shouldStop);
                if (shouldStop)
                {
                        return;
                }
        }
}

If you compile this with clang -fblocks then it will work using Clang's native 
support for blocks.  If you compile it with GCC or clang without -fblocks then 
it will use the other version.  Note that this example uses fast enumeration, 
so will only compile with clang.  A proper GNUstep implementation should have 
some fall-back code for primitive compilers that don't support this either.


Added:
    libs/base/trunk/Headers/Additions/GNUstepBase/GSBlocks.h
Modified:
    libs/base/trunk/ChangeLog


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