C++ Support in Objective-C02/28/07C++ Support in Objective-COk, this truly sucks. Last night, I was playing with Objective C. I had written an O-C class and tried to include a C++ class as a member variable of the O-C class. Now, you would think this would be possible, since you can create Objective-C++ classes that take advantage of certain C++ features. Apparently, this support of C++ in Objective-C is incomplete at best. I discovered that when I added that C++ class as a member variable, it compiled, but it gave me a warning telling me that the constructor and destructor of that member class would not be called! If the constructor and destructor don't get called, C++ classes are basically useless! What else won't get called on the C++ class in this case? This really sucks. This means that I had to basically rewrite that C++ class as a full Objective-C class in order to use it properly. This, in my opinion is a glaring hole in the current implementation of Objective-C. It seems inconceivable to me that you can easily include any C code you want, but only certain parts of C++ work in Objective-C. I really hope they fix this in Objective-C 2.0, that is coming Real Soon Now, in Leopard! 2 comments I tried out some third-party code that used pointers to C++ objects inside an Objective-C class before and it seemed to work fine. Here is the link: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/120/lectures/05/tutorial.html
04/04/07 @ 18:37
 The problem isn't calling C++ objects from O-C. That works. The problem is that if you have an O-C object with a C++ object as a member variable, the constructor and destructor will not be called in that case. That is the major problem I found.
04/04/07 @ 19:54
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