[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0005 Better Translation of Objective-C APIs Into Swift

Dave Abrahams dabrahams at apple.com
Sun Jan 24 16:39:56 CST 2016


on Sun Jan 24 2016, Tim Hawkins <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Is the proposal going to improve support for "c" function import too,
> or is it limited to objective-c?

This proposal is only about ObjC methods.

> Im asking because there are currently some weaknesses in importing libs
> like glibc etc on linux, like the lack of support for functions with
> varadic arguments, ie ioctrl etc. Which requires any interfaces to said
> functions to have "c" wrappers built for them, before they can be
> imported.

Indeed, but it's a separable issue.  Let's keep the scope manageable :-)

-- 
-Dave



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