What would be a set of nifty preprocessor hacks (ANSI C89/ISO C90 compatible) which enable some kind of ugly (but usable) object-orientation in C?
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For me object orientation in C should have these features:
Encapsulation and data hiding (can be achieved using structs/opaque pointers)
Inheritance and support for polymorphism (single inheritance can be achieved using structs - make sure the abstract base is not instantiable)
Constructor and destructor functionality (not easy to achieve)
Type checking (at least for user-defined types as C doesn't enforce any)
Reference counting (or something to implement RAII)
Limited support for exception handling (setjmp and longjmp)
On top of the above it should rely on ANSI/ISO specifications and should not rely on compiler-specific functionality.