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Summary:

Interactions between various graphic technologies (Core Graphics, Core Animation, normal NSViews etc)
is severely hampered by type definitions which are byte-identical but have different names.
For example:

CGRect is a struct with two structs, each with two floats.
NSRect is a struct with two structs, each with two floats.

However, a CGRect returned by one object can't be directly used as a an NSRect - simply because they have different typedefs. Casting them doesn't work either, gcc just produces the error: conversion to non-scalar type requested.

NSColor & CGColor is another example.

Incompatibilities like this, especially when using NSView, CALayer, CGLayer etc. are just unnecessary and seriously annoying.

In addition I noticed that they already have been made equivalent for some environments, here's the #if statement from NSGeometry.h: (extract)

#if __LP64__ || TARGET_OS_EMBEDDED || TARGET_OS_IPHONE || TARGET_OS_WIN32 || NS_BUILD_32_LIKE_64

typedef CGRect NSrect;

#else

typedef struct _NSRect {
   NSPoint origin;
   NSSize size;
} NSRect;

#endif