About the code.What’s the difference between ****.fwd.hh and ****.hh

[Anonymous]

For example,CacheableData.fwd.hh and CacheableData.hh.What’s the meaning of fwd?Help~~

[Anonymous]

They have to do with Rosetta’s use of Owning Pointers for most/all Rosetta C++ objects. See the typedef in the fwd.hh file.
Why do you ask?

-Jared

[Anonymous]

They’re for C++ forward declarations. Basically, they’re set up as separate files to make the code compile faster.

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_declaration
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4757565/c-forward-declaration
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/553682/when-to-use-forward-declaration
for more details.

[Author]

Posts