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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: Julien Jalon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:26:27 +0200

64bit runtime selectors are not char* as far as I know.
In general, you should use NSSelectorFromString/NSStringFromSelector the
more low-level objc functions.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:21 AM, 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--
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