Welcome to the seventh in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. We’ve talked about structs and classes, so the obvious next choice is enums, the last of Swift’s three “concrete” user-definable types.
The Swift Runtime: Class Metadata Initialization
Welcome to the sixth in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. Last time we went through the fields of class metadata; today we’re going to finish initializing them.
The Swift Runtime: Class Metadata
Welcome to the fifth in a series of posts on the Swift runtime. The goal is to go over the functions of the Swift runtime, using what I learned in my Swift on Mac OS 9 project as a reference. Last time we finished talking about how the metadata for structs and enums gets set up; this time we’re going to talk about classes.
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