[PATCH] Implicitly convert C++ wrappers to ObjC objects in @synchronized.

[Grant Paul]

I agree completely with discouraging @synchronized, and tend to avoid it
myself. The reasoning behind this patch is a discussion I was having with
someone who works on code which does use @synchronized extensively, and
they complained about Clang not supporting implicit conversions when using
C++ wrapper objects. I don't have a strong reason to request this patch be
merged, but it would be nice to be able to say that issue is fixed.

Thanks,

Grant


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> wrote:

> I feel obliged to advise you to switch away to @synchronized to something
> more efficient and more appropriate for your use case. I'm not sure it's
> worth improving @synchronized when it's really not a good default choice
> for concurrency protection.
>
> Jordan
>
>
> On Aug 2, 2014, at 18:17 , Grant Paul <grant at grantpaul.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Attached is a patch to allow implicitly converting C++ wrapper objects
> in @synchronized. Many projects (Chromium, MobileCydia, etc) use RAII-based
> handles for Objective-C objects, but are not able to use those handles in
> @synchronized without an explicit cast.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Grant
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