Bad mulle-objc Code

A non-functional `.m` file that contains all the features that are absent from mulle-objc.

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Bad Code

These are examples of Objective-C 2.0 code, that will not work with mulle-objc.

@import

mulle-objc has no support for modules and the @import directive. This will give a compiler error:

@import Whatever;             // @import doesn't work

See Porting @import for code conversion tips.

Unsupported @property attributes

The attributes atomic,weak,strong,nullable,unsafe_retained class are all unknown to mulle-objc and will produce errors:

@interface Foo

// unsupported property attribute
@property( atomic) id  a;
@property( weak) id  b;
@property( strong) id  c;
@property( nullable) id  d;      // nullable can be #defined away without trouble
@property( unsafe_unretained) e; // shpuld be no different to assign though
@property( class) id  f;         // class has a chance of being supported sometime

See Porting @property for conversion tips.

@synthesize with different ivar name

You can not synthesize to a different name, ivar must be '_'<name>:

// continuing the interface declaration...
// we need the next two declarations for @synthesize to complain
@property( assign) id g;
@property( assign) id h;

@end

@implementation Foo

@synthesize g = _g1;

// specfiying a property as dynamic with @dynamic does nothing in mulle-objc
@dynamic h;

See Porting @synthesize for code conversion tips.

Subscripting

Subscripting for NSArray and NSDictionary or any other class is not supported. Instead the compiler will use C indexing:

// subscripting is not supported
- (id) getFirst:(NSArray *) array
{
   return( array[ 0]);
}

See Porting Subscripting for code conversion tips.

ARC

ARC code will crash or leak depending on what you are doing:

- (id) ARC
{
   return( [[NSArray alloc] init]);
}

See Porting ARC code for code conversion tips.

Dot syntax

There is no operator overloading ‘.’ in mulle-objc. ‘.’ is used to accessed struct and union fields, not objects:

// dotsyntax is not supported
- (void) dotsyntax
{
   self.h = @"x";
}

See Porting Dot Syntax for code conversion tips.

Generics

// generics are not supported
- (void) generics:(NSArray<NSString *> *) array
{
}

See Porting Generics for code conversion tips.

Block

// blocks are not supported
- (void) blocks:(int (^)(NSString *)) aBlock
{
}

See Porting Blocks for code conversion tips.

@synchronized,@dynamic

// synchronized is not supported
- (void) synchronized
{
   @synchronized( self)
   {
   }
}

See Porting @synchronized for code conversion tips.

@YES …

@YES and @NO are not supported, use @(YES),@(NO) or +numberWithBool: instead

// literal BOOL is not supported
- (NSNumber *) literalBOOL
{
   return( @YES);
}

Note there is a good chance that the mulle-clang compiler will forbid the use of non-numeric constants for boxing. So for example @INT_MAX may work currently but it may not in the future.

Protocol *

Protocol * as such doesn’t exist in mulle-objc. Use PROTOCOL instead:

// Protocol * is not supported, use PROTOCOL
- (void) keepProtocol:(Protocol *) proto
{
   [proto retain];  // PROTOCOL is not an object
}

See Porting Protocol for code conversion tips.

Casting SEL to `(char *)`

In the Apple runtime a SEL is basically a string, but this is not true in mulle-objc:

- (void) printSelectorAsCString:(SEL) sel
{
   printf( "%s\n", sel); // SEL is not a C-String in mulle-objc
}

Accessing variable arguments with va_list

Variable arguments are NOT va_list in mulle-objc, but mulle-vararg instead:

- (void) variableArguments:(NSString *) format, ...
{
   va_list   args;

   va_start( args, format);
   va_end( args);
}

@end

See Porting Varargs for code conversion tips.

@package

@package is an unsupported keyword.It will produce a compiler error:

@interface NoWorky
@package
@end