ObjFW  History of src/OFIntrospection.h of 8897d12b4549cf6e

This allows ABI stability with the fragile ABI. file: [f4fdf94694] check-in: [496695d778] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 6311 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

This improves Swift compatibility. file: [b6e5a88492] check-in: [f3ccf14461] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 5967 [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: [5b3e73bb9a] check-in: [2f4e0df8be] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 5959 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

Casts are now written like types in variable declarations. file: [fb7189fbfa] check-in: [4af49a13c3] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 5715 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

This changes retaining behavior, meaning properties are not returned
retained and autoreleased anymore, so a property returned from a getter
now needs to be manually retained and autoreleased before calling the
setter. However, this is rarely the case and not using atomic improves
performance. file: [07598bfdef] check-in: [0a73af49f0] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 5707 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

Forgot to add 2017, even though I already did quite some changes in
2017. file: [bc8548b155] check-in: [44f45c2e35] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 5662 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

While at it, also update the mail address. file: [a23f4b46cf] check-in: [cec0f072f8] user: js, branch: 0.8, size: 7097 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

While at it, also update the mail address. file: [d713855550] check-in: [2a27cf3000] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 5656 [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: [afc6aa5a2f] check-in: [48980f2297] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 5652 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

This is necessary to make GCC (>= 4.6 and Apple GCC) happy as they don't
like the list of property attributes ending in a comma. file: [061b43fb0e] check-in: [80e1a9655b] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 7093 [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: [a52b80111f] check-in: [28cc9a516e] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 3287 [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: [2a5882e748] check-in: [cea0c66392] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 3757 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]

Currently only for the Apple and new GNU runtime. file: [5767ab8f57] check-in: [93a3badbb7] user: js, branch: trunk, size: 3231 [annotate] [blame] [check-ins using] [diff]