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Re: Difference between SEL and const char* when sending a message?
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Re: Difference between SEL and const char* when sending a message?


  • Subject: Re: Difference between SEL and const char* when sending a message?
  • From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 03:21:38 -0400

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Mark Ritchie <email@hidden> wrote:

>
> "You can not simply cast a C string to SEL." is from:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ObjCRuntimeRef/ObjCRuntimeRef.pdf
>
> Note that while it's be convenient to cast SEL to char *, especially when
> debugging in gdb, there's no guarantee it will be that way in the future.


In fact, in the Cocotron libobjc, and I believe in the GNU libobjc as well,
it's not that way in the present. :-)

sherm--

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