Re: [PATCH v13 2/7] net/vmnet: add vmnet backends to qapi/net

[Roman Bolshakov]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 08:14:31PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 17:49, Roman Bolshakov <roman@roolebo.dev> wrote:
> > I'm not sure why blocks are Objective-C specific. All the data I have
> > shows the opposite [3][4][5]. They're just extensively used in Apple APIs.
> 
> This is true, but for the purposes of our build machinery it is
> simpler to have three types of source files that it deals
> with (C, C++, ObjC) rather than four (C, C++, ObjC, C-that-uses-blocks).
> So unless there's a clear benefit from adding the extra category
> I think we should do the simple thing and keep these files named
> with a ".m" extension.
> 

Fine by me as long as majority finds it's simpler :) Perhaps it's just a
matter of personal preference.

I've used to the fact that platform-specific code uses platform-specific
extensions or some sort of weird "GCC attributes". Therefore C with an
extension is easier to reason for me than Objective-C with ARC and other
kinds of implicit behaviour without an actual Objective-C code.

Thanks,
Roman