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Re: (RS)What's the type of a selector?[3]
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Re: (RS)What's the type of a selector?[3]


  • Subject: Re: (RS)What's the type of a selector?[3]
  • From: Chris Suter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:28:47 +1000

Someone just pointed me at:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Objc-language/2006/Aug/msg00020.html

Don't believe anything I say today!

I've filed a documentation bug.

- Chris

On 28/10/2006, at 2:15 PM, Chris Suter wrote:

Hi,

I just wrote an apology to Roland off-list.

I didn't realise that you could cast SEL's to char * but from reading the docs. it appears you can. It was probably originally intended that objc_selector be an opaque type but given it's now documented that you can cast to char *, it's very unlikely it will change.

Looks like I should go read some books. :-)

- Chris

On 28/10/2006, at 2:11 PM, Klaus Backert wrote:


Am 28.10.2006 um 05:05 schrieb Roland Silver:

On Oct 27, 2006, at 8:30 PM, Chris Suter wrote:
Hi,
Looks like you should read some C books.
It's a pointer to an structure.
It's not a char * and NSLog ("%s", @selector (foo)) will not work as someone suggested earlier.
Either use %p for a pointer or use %s with sel_getName or use %@ and NSStringFromSelector.
This is all in the documentation and you really don't need us to help you.
- Chris

Well, Chris...

Aaron Hillegass writes in the 2nd Edition of his Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X in Chapter 3 "Objective-C / For the More Curious: How Does Messageing Work?", p78f:
"The selector is of type SEL. Although, SEL is actually defined to be char * ...".


With Cmd-doubleclick on any SEL in Xcode I find immediately:
typedef struct objc-selector *SEL
in the header objc.h

There is a little bit more info in the Objective-C runtime reference.

Cheers.
Klaus
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 >What's the type of a selector? (From: Roland Silver <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What's the type of a selector? (From: John Stiles <email@hidden>)
 >(RS)What's the type of a selector?[2] (From: Roland Silver <email@hidden>)
 >Re: (RS)What's the type of a selector?[2] (From: Chris Suter <email@hidden>)
 >(RS)What's the type of a selector?[3] (From: Roland Silver <email@hidden>)
 >Re: (RS)What's the type of a selector?[3] (From: Klaus Backert <email@hidden>)
 >Re: (RS)What's the type of a selector?[3] (From: Chris Suter <email@hidden>)

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