Question

I have an anonymous struct in my code that I’d like to access via an assign @property (no pointer). However, since this is an anonymous structure. Here’s the cocoa code I created (even if it’s cocoa code, it’s relevant to objective-c in general.)

@interface ProfileViewController : UIViewController {

    struct {
       BOOL isDeviceOwner:1;

    } _statusFlags;
}

Now I’d like to create a property for _statusFlags:

@property (nonatomic, assign)

Answer 1

Yes, you just define it inline where you would define the type.

@property (nonatomic, assign) struct { ... } statusFlags;

Then when you synthesize it you can do @synthesize statusFlags = _statusFlags if you really like the underscored ivars, but this will generate the ivar for you. You do not need to define it explicitly.