ObjFW  History of src/OFIntrospection.m of 6d18dda5b11c3809

ObjFW_RT used to be a separate project that followed the BSD style, as
it was written in pure C, while ObjFW's style is based on the BSD style
with changes to make it a better fit for Objective-C. This commit
changes ObjFW_RT to use the same style as ObjFW. file: [cd6beb50c0] check-in: [ef6d69931e] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 13284 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

Instead, explicitly declare them, as OF_ASSUME_NONNULL_{BEGIN,END} does
not apply to implicit return types. This means that after this commit,
all init methods have a nonnull return type, as they should have. file: [045afb68a1] check-in: [2f4e0df8be] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 12778 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

It does not work well enough yet: While creating a lot of noise, it
fails to even find many of the obvious cases. Depending on the static
analyzer seems to be the better approach for now. file: [cd2923612d] check-in: [e47c219327] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 12693 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

This matches Apple's style. file: [0844281f73] check-in: [6b77a5dd8b] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 12629 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

Casts are now written like types in variable declarations. file: [1afb80a6b9] check-in: [4af49a13c3] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 12593 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

Forgot to add 2017, even though I already did quite some changes in
2017. file: [ddfa0d4e34] check-in: [44f45c2e35] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 12606 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

These are independent of the locale and work on the ASCII character set.

Unlike the C ones, these are 8-bit safe, meaning if a character > 0x7F
is passed, is{alpha,alnum} returns false and to{upper,lower} returns the
original character. file: [0aa9a039cb] check-in: [d9eb7b50b3] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 12600 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

This is required as passing something signed to it is an error on
NetBSD, but passing anything else than a char is undefined on Linux. file: [5bbbc65fa4] check-in: [09a0d12bae] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 12637 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

While at it, also update the mail address. file: [2f90f7ce1e] check-in: [cec0f072f8] user: js, branch: 0.8, size: 12878 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

While at it, also update the mail address. file: [0997c2730b] check-in: [2a27cf3000] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 12543 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

This increases the required GCC version from 4.0 to 4.6 (exception:
Apple GCC, which already supports this with >= 4.0 starting with OS X
10.5). Since even GCC 4.6 is really old by now, there is no point in
still supporting something even older and making the code ugly because
of that. While some hardware and OS support was dropped from GCC 4.6
compared to GCC 4.0, there is nothing in there that would be an
interesting target with the exception of BeOS maybe - but a port to BeOS
can also be achieved using the Haiku support. The other dropped OSes are
mostly old versions of OSes while newer ones are still being supported
(and those newer versions of those OSes still support the same
hardware). file: [521053ff4d] check-in: [48980f2297] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 12539 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

This means that OFObject.h imports macros.h now, making it unnecessary
to manually import macros.h in almost every file. And while at it, also
import autorelease.h in OFObject.h, so that this doesn't need to be
manually imported in almost every file as well. file: [f9f3542aad] check-in: [13ee56edf3] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 12868 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

No functional change intended. file: [9e051f7ab4] check-in: [9da9b2b64c] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 12976 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

The only places where BOOL is left are those where they are required by
the ABI. file: [f870fce7d2] check-in: [c5ef582958] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 7015 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

This makes sure we never compare anything with NULL. file: [f27111d726] check-in: [ab13f1d324] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 6967 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

This makes sure we never compare anything with NULL. file: [e8a22a012c] check-in: [edc67e0190] user: js, branch: 0.7, size: 7125 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

This seems to be too buggy in compilers, at least when using GNU-style
runtimes (neither GCC nor Clang emit them correctly there right now). file: [f04bb94239] check-in: [28cc9a516e] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 6214 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

This greatly improves performance, as it gets rid of the overhead of
OFAutoreleasePool. file: [e0bf0f6365] check-in: [1255f3a11a] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 7540 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

Currently, only methods can be introspected. This means that ivars and
properties are still on the todo list. However, the ObjFW runtime does
not export structs for those yet, so this needs to be done first. file: [495179aec4] check-in: [9df84ee33d] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 6620 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

Unavailable with the old GNU runtime as of now. Making it work with the
old GNU runtime would require checking the ABI version manually and then
accessing stuff manually that is not available in older ABI versions. file: [405ed0f261] check-in: [cea0c66392] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 7380 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

Currently only for the Apple and new GNU runtime. file: [6a25e3dc19] check-in: [93a3badbb7] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 5423 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

Using other classes there would make it impossible to use
+[inheritMethodsFromClass:] in the classes being used, which would be
unfortunate as the classes that were used are potential candidates for
collection classes. file: [5d382d3723] check-in: [7b5b0c8174] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 4096 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]