Re: Stupid objective-c question
Re: Stupid objective-c question
- Subject: Re: Stupid objective-c question
- From: Britt Durbrow <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 21:31:10 -0700
FWIW, it’s currently an implementation detail that SELs do map into the global address space in a way that doesn’t collide with anything else; but technically, they are in their own address space and the system could map them otherwise in a manner that does have collisions with other stuff.
In practice, I don’t think that will ever happen, because a) too much existing code makes the assumption that a SEL is de-referenceable or otherwise depends on this implementation detail; and b) we have 64-bit addressing, so we’re not going to run out of address space such that making that change would be advantageous.
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Slipp Douglas Thompson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'm just going to throw this out there as a solution, not because I recommend this approach (it's API misuse after all) but because it would work.
>
> Instead of using an `NSString *` you could use a `SEL` (AKA `struct objc_selector *`) since SELs are guaranteed to be unique for each given string they represent (within a process; AFAIR).
>
> So your code would become:
>
> if (context == @selector(mediaLibraryLoaded))
> {
> // …
>
> Or in Swift:
>
> if context == Selector("mediaLibraryLoaded")
> {
> // …
> (Swift's `Selector.init(_ str:String)` implementation <https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/SDK/ObjectiveC/ObjectiveC.swift#L98 <https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/SDK/ObjectiveC/ObjectiveC.swift#L98>> just calls `sel_registerName` and (curiously) treats the returned pointer as a C-string.)
>
> Again, this is a blatant mis-use of the Objective-C API… but it is also a built-in compiler-optimized guaranteed-interned string, it won't cause issues when comparing to other arbitrary `void *`s, and the usage in Swift is almost identical to Objective-C.
>
>
> ----
>
>
> My 2¢: I'm still in favor of making all usages of `context` in your app `NSObject *`s or `nil` because sometimes you do want to store an `NSDictionary *` or other data in `context` that's meant to be read later. But if you're stuck with using other libs that don't use `NSObject *`s or `nil`, or if you really want to ensure your code won't crash because its making assumptions about what's in the `context` your code registered, then I acknowledge your case. Key point: I personally wouldn't use the `SEL` approach, but still.
>
> — Slipp
>
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