Re: weak redefinition

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

David Chisnall wrote:
> __weak is a keyword in Objective-C (and was before the last NetBSD release).  
> If they use a language keyword in their system headers, then they can not 
> expect it to work.  Identifiers starting with a double underscore are reserved 
> for ‘the implementation’ in C.  Objective-C uses __weak, __strong, 
> __unsafe_unretained, __block, and a few others.  These are all prefixed with a 
> double underscore to avoid conflicts with other identifiers and because the 
> compiler is part of ‘the implementation’.

do you have an authoritative reference to that? I wound "weak" and not 
"__weak". A language spec or a doc from Apple would be excellent, so I 
can argument to the NetBSD guys.

Riccardo