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Has anyone ever gotten an "Initializer is not implemented" error when trying to subclass an Obj-C class?

Hello! Have you looked through <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native/objc_interop.html#subclassing-swiftobjective-c-classes-and-protocols-from-kotlin|this> paragraph? Maybe the `@OverrideInit` annotation would help here.

I think the issue is that the initializer that isn't implemented isn't one inherited from the direct super class, instead it's from the super class of the super class:
```ObjCSuper (initWithSomething)
^
|
ObjC (does not override initWithSomething)
^
|
Kotlin (initWithSomething not implemented!)```
`@OverrideInit` does work, but since the missing initializer deals with other native C++ code from an external library, it's not ideal to have to re-implement it in the Kotlin subclass. Is there any way around this?

Maybe you can go with something like
```@OverrideInit constructor(something: Something) : super(something)```
?