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Re: Hard Objc-Runtime question: objc_getClassList lies to me...
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Re: Hard Objc-Runtime question: objc_getClassList lies to me...


  • Subject: Re: Hard Objc-Runtime question: objc_getClassList lies to me...
  • From: Martin Häcker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:44:37 +0200

Hi!
First of all, thanks for your response and the testcase!

This code is perfectly correct. It will return a list of all the class names registered with the runtime.

Thanks for the assurance!

I doubt this to be the case. All objc_lookUpClass does is, well, look up for a class with the given name in the list of registered classes. It is does not change the list of registered classes at all.

Well.. I thought that too.

I wrote a test case based on the code you've given (except I used NSSets instead of NSArrays so I could use set operations to look through the list rather than trying to vgrep the output of NSLog). I was not able to reproduce the situtation you've described. My test case is here:


But then I tried your testcase and get these weird results:
--- snip ---
2003-07-24 23:55:07.900 ObjCRuntimeTest[1505] Before contains <CFSet 0x58f40 [0xa018014c]>{count = 2, capacity = 2, values = (
0 : DATestClass
4 : DAClassLister
)}
2003-07-24 23:55:07.907 ObjCRuntimeTest[1505] After contains <CFSet 0x58f40 [0xa018014c]>{count = 2, capacity = 2, values = (
0 : DATestClass
4 : DAClassLister
)}

ObjCRuntimeTest has exited with status 0.
--- snap ---

Notice that the printf is not in this output.

Then I changed my version of this testcase to this (I also switched from NSArray to NSSet):
--- snip ---
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import "ClassLister.h"
//#import "Test.h"

#include <objc/objc-runtime.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
id pool = [NSAutoreleasePool new];
NSSet *before, *after, *target;
ClassLister *lister = [ClassLister new];
target = [NSSet setWithObjects:@"ClassLister", @"Test", nil];
before = [lister allClasses];
if ([target isSubsetOfSet:before])
NSLog(@"Found it in first try");

Class test = objc_lookUpClass("Test");
if (NULL != test)
printf("lookUp returned: '%s'\n", test->name);

after = [lister allClasses];
if ([target isSubsetOfSet:after])
NSLog(@"found it in second try");
[pool release];
return 0;
}
--- snap ---
And this turns out this results:
--- snip ---
lookUp returned: 'Test'
2003-07-24 23:59:07.619 classtest[1515] found it in second try

classtest has exited with status 0.
--- snap ---

Uhm.... I don't get this. :(

I noticed that I didn't need to include the header of "Test.h" in main.m, but it seems the compiler dosn't delete the code for Test.h. (which is good. :)

But I absolutely can't explain why this is happening.

Thanks a lot for your time!

cu Martin
--
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