“FOUNDATION_EXPORT” vs “extern”

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If you look in NSObjCRuntime.h (in Foundation) you will see that FOUNDATION_EXPORT compiles to extern in C, extern "C" in C++, and other things in Win32. So, it’s more compatible across languages and operating systems. For many projects, this won’t make any difference.

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