[cfe-dev] default instance variable visibility

[Fariborz Jahanian]

Yes, it should be protected by default.  Thanks.

- Fariborz



On Apr 29, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Emerson Murphy-Hill wrote:

> I noticed when clang parses objective-c interfaces, the default  
> visibility for instance variables is private.  For example, in this  
> code
>
> @interface Bloo {
>     int somevar;
> }
>
> somevar is reportedly private visibility, by getAccessControl on  
> ObjCIvarDecl.  I believe that default visibility is supposed to be  
> protected:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/ObjC.pdf
>
> Here's a patch:
>
> Index: ParseObjc.cpp
> ===================================================================
> --- ParseObjc.cpp	(revision 50182)
> +++ ParseObjc.cpp	(working copy)
> @@ -758,7 +758,7 @@
>
>    SourceLocation LBraceLoc = ConsumeBrace(); // the "{"
>
> -  tok::ObjCKeywordKind visibility = tok::objc_private;
> +  tok::ObjCKeywordKind visibility = tok::objc_protected;
>    // While we still have something to read, read the instance  
> variables.
>    while (Tok.isNot(tok::r_brace) && Tok.isNot(tok::eof)) {
>      // Each iteration of this loop reads one objc-instance-variable- 
> decl.
>
> Cheers,
>
> e
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