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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: Daqi Pei <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:07:19 +0800

Thanks for all your answers. I was doing that basically trying to understand
how the
runtime works. Guess I've got what I need. Thanks again!

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>wrote:

> 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--
>
> --
> Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net
>
>
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