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Re: getting Objective-C++ to work

I wrote:
| In addition, it's very much *not* safe to pass C++ objects to
| Objective-C methods, or to have an Objective-C method return a C++
| object. The object is copied to or from the method using a bitwise
| copy; the class's copy constructor isn't invoked, nor is the class's
| destructor called for the copy.

James Mastro wrote:
| This scared me, so I looked over my code to see if I was sending a C++
| object in by value instead of by reference or pointer. In only two cases
| I was. But the copy constructor was being called fine. I also had a C++
| object returned a few times by an Objective C method to a C++ caller,
| and that was working fine. What am I missing? This is with GCC 3.1 on
| the ancient April 2002 dev tools.

They may well have fixed things since I checked. I don't recall when that was, but that very problem bit me at one point. If it's no longer a problem, I'm glad to hear it.

Glen Fisher
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