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...r of the object which will allow us to cast a DString to std::string or DArray to std::vector without any manual or automatic marshaling. As mentioned this is how OSX implements its NS classes, by using the equivalent CF version which again allows casting between the objects. This is not how the CFBridge works. Actually, the first member of an object MUST be a pointer to its Class (the isa pointer). If you want to be able to put something else, you will have to rewrite the runtime to support it. You can read this great article about the bridge here: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/...

Implementing the backend (or editing the current PPC backend as needed) is a definite option. This seems to be the real question... which is easier... maintaining the PPC backend or maintaining the rewriter. Currently (in admittedly trivial tests) I have gotten the rewriter to work and output C code. There are some outstanding issues to do with linking and accessing the reflection information