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-/* GNU Objective-C Runtime API - Modern API
- Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- Contributed by Nicola Pero <nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com>
-
-This file is part of GCC.
-
-GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
-Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any
-later version.
-
-GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
-ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
-License for more details.
-
-Under Section 7 of GPL version 3, you are granted additional
-permissions described in the GCC Runtime Library Exception, version
-3.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License and
-a copy of the GCC Runtime Library Exception along with this program;
-see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively. If not, see
-<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
-
-#ifndef __objc_runtime_INCLUDE_GNU
-#define __objc_runtime_INCLUDE_GNU
-
-/*
- This file declares the "modern" GNU Objective-C Runtime API.
-
- This API replaced the "traditional" GNU Objective-C Runtime API
- (which used to be declared in objc/objc-api.h) which is the one
- supported by older versions of the GNU Objective-C Runtime. The
- "modern" API is very similar to the API used by the modern
- Apple/NeXT runtime.
-*/
-#include "objc.h"
-#include "objc-decls.h"
-
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-extern "C" {
-#endif /* __cplusplus */
-
-/* An 'Ivar' represents an instance variable. It holds information
- about the name, type and offset of the instance variable. */
-typedef struct objc_ivar *Ivar;
-
-/* A 'Property' represents a property. It holds information about the
- name of the property, and its attributes.
-
- Compatibility Note: the Apple/NeXT runtime defines this as
- objc_property_t, so we define it that way as well, but obviously
- Property is the right name. */
-typedef struct objc_property *Property;
-typedef struct objc_property *objc_property_t;
-
-/* A 'Method' represents a method. It holds information about the
- name, types and the IMP of the method. */
-typedef struct objc_method *Method;
-
-/* A 'Category' represents a category. It holds information about the
- name of the category, the class it belongs to, and the methods,
- protocols and such like provided by the category. */
-typedef struct objc_category *Category;
-
-/* 'Protocol' is defined in objc/objc.h (which is included by this
- file). */
-
-/* Method descriptor returned by introspective Object methods. At the
- moment, this is really just the first part of the more complete
- objc_method structure used internally by the runtime. (PS: In the
- GNU Objective-C Runtime, selectors already include a type, so an
- objc_method_description does not add much to a SEL. But in other
- runtimes, that is not the case, which is why
- objc_method_description exists). */
-struct objc_method_description
-{
- SEL name; /* Selector (name and signature) */
- char *types; /* Type encoding */
-};
-
-/* The following are used in encode strings to describe the type of
- Ivars and Methods. */
-#define _C_ID '@'
-#define _C_CLASS '#'
-#define _C_SEL ':'
-#define _C_CHR 'c'
-#define _C_UCHR 'C'
-#define _C_SHT 's'
-#define _C_USHT 'S'
-#define _C_INT 'i'
-#define _C_UINT 'I'
-#define _C_LNG 'l'
-#define _C_ULNG 'L'
-#define _C_LNG_LNG 'q'
-#define _C_ULNG_LNG 'Q'
-#define _C_FLT 'f'
-#define _C_DBL 'd'
-#define _C_LNG_DBL 'D'
-#define _C_BFLD 'b'
-#define _C_BOOL 'B'
-#define _C_VOID 'v'
-#define _C_UNDEF '?'
-#define _C_PTR '^'
-#define _C_CHARPTR '*'
-#define _C_ARY_B '['
-#define _C_ARY_E ']'
-#define _C_UNION_B '('
-#define _C_UNION_E ')'
-#define _C_STRUCT_B '{'
-#define _C_STRUCT_E '}'
-#define _C_VECTOR '!'
-#define _C_COMPLEX 'j'
-
-/* _C_ATOM is never generated by the compiler. You can treat it as
- equivalent to "*". */
-#define _C_ATOM '%'
-
-/* The following are used in encode strings to describe some
- qualifiers of method and ivar types. */
-#define _C_CONST 'r'
-#define _C_IN 'n'
-#define _C_INOUT 'N'
-#define _C_OUT 'o'
-#define _C_BYCOPY 'O'
-#define _C_BYREF 'R'
-#define _C_ONEWAY 'V'
-#define _C_GCINVISIBLE '|'
-
-/* The same when used as flags. */
-#define _F_CONST 0x01
-#define _F_IN 0x01
-#define _F_OUT 0x02
-#define _F_INOUT 0x03
-#define _F_BYCOPY 0x04
-#define _F_BYREF 0x08
-#define _F_ONEWAY 0x10
-#define _F_GCINVISIBLE 0x20
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are defined inline. */
-
-/* Return the class of 'object', or Nil if the object is nil. If
- 'object' is a class, the meta class is returned; if 'object' is a
- meta class, the root meta class is returned (note that this is
- different from the traditional GNU Objective-C Runtime API function
- object_get_class(), which for a meta class would return the meta
- class itself). This function is inline, so it is really fast and
- should be used instead of accessing object->class_pointer
- directly. */
-static inline Class
-object_getClass (id object)
-{
- if (object != nil)
- return object->class_pointer;
- else
- return Nil;
-}
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in selector.c. */
-
-/* Return the name of a given selector. If 'selector' is NULL, return
- "<null selector>". */
-objc_EXPORT const char *sel_getName (SEL selector);
-
-/* Return the type of a given selector. Return NULL if selector is
- NULL.
-
- Compatibility Note: the Apple/NeXT runtime has untyped selectors,
- so it does not have this function, which is specific to the GNU
- Runtime. */
-objc_EXPORT const char *sel_getTypeEncoding (SEL selector);
-
-/* This is the same as sel_registerName (). Please use
- sel_registerName () instead. */
-objc_EXPORT SEL sel_getUid (const char *name);
-
-/* Register a selector with a given name (but unspecified types). If
- you know the types, it is better to call sel_registerTypedName().
- If a selector with this name and no types already exists, it is
- returned. Note that this function should really be called
- 'objc_registerSelector'. Return NULL if 'name' is NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT SEL sel_registerName (const char *name);
-
-/* Register a selector with a given name and types. If a selector
- with this name and types already exists, it is returned. Note that
- this function should really be called 'objc_registerTypedSelector',
- and it's called 'sel_registerTypedName' only for consistency with
- 'sel_registerName'. Return NULL if 'name' is NULL.
-
- Compatibility Note: the Apple/NeXT runtime has untyped selectors,
- so it does not have this function, which is specific to the GNU
- Runtime. */
-objc_EXPORT SEL sel_registerTypedName (const char *name, const char *type);
-
-/* Return YES if first_selector is the same as second_selector, and NO
- if not. */
-objc_EXPORT BOOL sel_isEqual (SEL first_selector, SEL second_selector);
-
-/* Return all the selectors with the supplied name. In the GNU
- runtime, selectors are typed and there may be multiple selectors
- with the same name but a different type. The return value of the
- function is a pointer to an area, allocated with malloc(), that
- contains all the selectors with the supplier name known to the
- runtime. The list is terminated by NULL. Optionally, if you pass
- a non-NULL 'numberOfReturnedSelectors' pointer, the unsigned int
- that it points to will be filled with the number of selectors
- returned.
-
- Compatibility Note: the Apple/NeXT runtime has untyped selectors,
- so it does not have this function, which is specific to the GNU
- Runtime. */
-objc_EXPORT SEL * sel_copyTypedSelectorList (const char *name,
- unsigned int *numberOfReturnedSelectors);
-
-/* Return a selector with name 'name' and a non-zero type encoding, if
- there is a single selector with a type, and with that name,
- registered with the runtime. If there is no such selector, or if
- there are multiple selectors with the same name but conflicting
- types, NULL is returned. Return NULL if 'name' is NULL.
-
- This is useful if you have the name of the selector, and would
- really like to get a selector for it that includes the type
- encoding. Unfortunately, if the program contains multiple selector
- with the same name but different types, sel_getTypedSelector can
- not possibly know which one you need, and so will return NULL.
-
- Compatibility Note: the Apple/NeXT runtime has untyped selectors,
- so it does not have this function, which is specific to the GNU
- Runtime. */
-objc_EXPORT SEL sel_getTypedSelector (const char *name);
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in objects.c. */
-
-/* Create an instance of class 'class_', adding extraBytes to the size
- of the returned object. This method allocates the appropriate
- amount of memory for the instance, initializes it to zero, then
- calls all the C++ constructors on appropriate C++ instance
- variables of the instance (if any) (TODO: The C++ constructors bit
- is not implemented yet). */
-objc_EXPORT id class_createInstance (Class class_, size_t extraBytes);
-
-/* Copy an object and return the copy. extraBytes should be identical
- to the extraBytes parameter that was passed when creating the
- original object. */
-objc_EXPORT id object_copy (id object, size_t extraBytes);
-
-/* Dispose of an object. This method calls the appropriate C++
- destructors on appropriate C++ instance variables of the instance
- (if any) (TODO: This is not implemented yet), then frees the memory
- for the instance. */
-objc_EXPORT id object_dispose (id object);
-
-/* Return the name of the class of 'object'. If 'object' is 'nil',
- returns "Nil". */
-objc_EXPORT const char * object_getClassName (id object);
-
-/* Change the class of object to be class_. Return the previous class
- of object. This is currently not really thread-safe. */
-objc_EXPORT Class object_setClass (id object, Class class_);
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in ivars.c. */
-
-/* Return an instance variable given the class and the instance
- variable name. This is an expensive function to call, so try to
- reuse the returned Ivar if you can. */
-objc_EXPORT Ivar class_getInstanceVariable (Class class_, const char *name);
-
-/* Return a class variable given the class and the class variable
- name. This is an expensive function to call, so try to reuse the
- returned Ivar if you can.
-
- This function always returns NULL since class variables are
- currently unavailable in Objective-C. */
-objc_EXPORT Ivar class_getClassVariable (Class class_, const char *name);
-
-/* If the object was created in class_createInstance() with some
- extraBytes, returns a pointer to them. If it was not, then the
- returned pointer may make no sense. */
-objc_EXPORT void * object_getIndexedIvars (id object);
-
-/* Get the value of an instance variable of type 'id'. The function
- returns the instance variable. To get the value of the instance
- variable, you should pass as 'returnValue' a pointer to an 'id';
- the value will be copied there. Note that 'returnValue' is really
- a 'void *', not a 'void **'. This function really works only with
- instance variables of type 'id'; for other types of instance
- variables, access directly the data at (char *)object +
- ivar_getOffset (ivar). */
-objc_EXPORT Ivar object_getInstanceVariable (id object, const char *name, void **returnValue);
-
-/* Set the value of an instance variable. The value to set is passed
- in 'newValue' (which really is an 'id', not a 'void *'). The
- function returns the instance variable. This function really works
- only with instance variables of type 'id'; for other types of
- instance variables, access directly the data at (char *)object +
- ivar_getOffset (ivar). */
-objc_EXPORT Ivar object_setInstanceVariable (id object, const char *name, void *newValue);
-
-/* Get the value of an instance variable of type 'id' of the object
- 'object'. This is faster than object_getInstanceVariable if you
- already have the instance variable because it avoids the expensive
- call to class_getInstanceVariable that is done by
- object_getInstanceVariable. */
-objc_EXPORT id object_getIvar (id object, Ivar variable);
-
-/* Set the value of an instance variable of type 'id' of the object
- 'object'. This is faster than object_setInstanceVariable if you
- already have the instance variable because it avoids the expensive
- call to class_getInstanceVariable that is done by
- object_setInstanceVariable. */
-objc_EXPORT void object_setIvar (id object, Ivar variable, id value);
-
-/* Return the name of the instance variable. Return NULL if
- 'variable' is NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT const char * ivar_getName (Ivar variable);
-
-/* Return the offset of the instance variable from the start of the
- object data. Return 0 if 'variable' is NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT ptrdiff_t ivar_getOffset (Ivar variable);
-
-/* Return the type encoding of the variable. Return NULL if
- 'variable' is NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT const char * ivar_getTypeEncoding (Ivar variable);
-
-/* Return all the instance variables of the class. The return value
- of the function is a pointer to an area, allocated with malloc(),
- that contains all the instance variables of the class. It does not
- include instance variables of superclasses. The list is terminated
- by NULL. Optionally, if you pass a non-NULL
- 'numberOfReturnedIvars' pointer, the unsigned int that it points to
- will be filled with the number of instance variables returned.
- Return NULL for classes still in construction (ie, allocated using
- objc_allocatedClassPair() but not yet registered with the runtime
- using objc_registerClassPair()). */
-objc_EXPORT Ivar * class_copyIvarList (Class class_, unsigned int *numberOfReturnedIvars);
-
-/* Add an instance variable with name 'ivar_name' to class 'class_',
- where 'class_' is a class in construction that has been created
- using objc_allocateClassPair() and has not been registered with the
- runtime using objc_registerClassPair() yet. You can not add
- instance variables to classes already registered with the runtime.
- 'size' is the size of the instance variable, 'log_2_of_alignment'
- the alignment as a power of 2 (so 0 means alignment to a 1 byte
- boundary, 1 means alignment to a 2 byte boundary, 2 means alignment
- to a 4 byte boundary, etc), and 'type' the type encoding of the
- variable type. You can use sizeof(), log2(__alignof__()) and
- @encode() to determine the right 'size', 'alignment' and 'type' for
- your instance variable. For example, to add an instance variable
- name "my_variable" and of type 'id', you can use:
-
- class_addIvar (class, "my_variable", sizeof (id), log2 ( __alignof__ (id)),
- @encode (id));
-
- Return YES if the variable was added, and NO if not. In
- particular, return NO if 'class_' is Nil, or a meta-class or a
- class not in construction. Return Nil also if 'ivar_name' or
- 'type' is NULL, or 'size' is 0.
- */
-objc_EXPORT BOOL class_addIvar (Class class_, const char * ivar_name, size_t size,
- unsigned char log_2_of_alignment, const char *type);
-
-/* Return the name of the property. Return NULL if 'property' is
- NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT const char * property_getName (Property property);
-
-/* Return the attributes of the property as a string. Return NULL if
- 'property' is NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT const char * property_getAttributes (Property property);
-
-/* Return the property with name 'propertyName' of the class 'class_'.
- This function returns NULL if the required property can not be
- found. Return NULL if 'class_' or 'propertyName' is NULL.
-
- Note that the traditional ABI does not store the list of properties
- of a class in a compiled module, so the traditional ABI will always
- return NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT Property class_getProperty (Class class_, const char *propertyName);
-
-/* Return all the properties of the class. The return value
- of the function is a pointer to an area, allocated with malloc(),
- that contains all the properties of the class. It does not
- include properties of superclasses. The list is terminated
- by NULL. Optionally, if you pass a non-NULL
- 'numberOfReturnedIvars' pointer, the unsigned int that it points to
- will be filled with the number of properties returned.
-
- Note that the traditional ABI does not store the list of properties
- of a class in a compiled module, so the traditional ABI will always
- return an empty list. */
-objc_EXPORT Property * class_copyPropertyList
-(Class class_, unsigned int *numberOfReturnedProperties);
-
-/* Return the ivar layout for class 'class_'.
-
- At the moment this function always returns NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT const char * class_getIvarLayout (Class class_);
-
-/* Return the weak ivar layout for class 'class_'.
-
- At the moment this function always returns NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT const char * class_getWeakIvarLayout (Class class_);
-
-/* Set the ivar layout for class 'class_'.
-
- At the moment, this function does nothing. */
-objc_EXPORT void class_setIvarLayout (Class class_, const char *layout);
-
-/* Set the weak ivar layout for class 'class_'.
-
- At the moment, this function does nothing. With the GNU runtime,
- you should use class_ivar_set_gcinvisible () to hide variables from
- the Garbage Collector. */
-objc_EXPORT void class_setWeakIvarLayout (Class class_, const char *layout);
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in class.c. */
-
-/* Compatibility Note: The Apple/NeXT runtime does not have
- objc_get_unknown_class_handler and
- objc_setGetUnknownClassHandler(). They provide functionality that
- the traditional GNU Objective-C Runtime API used to provide via the
- _objc_lookup_class hook. */
-
-/* An 'objc_get_unknown_class_handler' function is used by
- objc_getClass() to get a class that is currently unknown to the
- compiler. You could use it for example to have the class loaded by
- dynamically loading a library. 'class_name' is the name of the
- class. The function should return the Class object if it manages to
- load the class, and Nil if not. */
-typedef Class (*objc_get_unknown_class_handler)(const char *class_name);
-
-/* Sets a new handler function for getting unknown classes (to be used
- by objc_getClass () and related), and returns the previous one.
- This function is not safe to call in a multi-threaded environment
- because other threads may be trying to use the get unknown class
- handler while you change it! */
-objc_EXPORT
-objc_get_unknown_class_handler
-objc_setGetUnknownClassHandler (objc_get_unknown_class_handler new_handler);
-
-/* Return the class with name 'name', if it is already registered with
- the runtime. If it is not registered, and
- objc_setGetUnknownClassHandler() has been called to set a handler
- for unknown classes, the handler is called to give it a chance to
- load the class in some other way. If the class is not known to the
- runtime and the handler is not set or returns Nil, objc_getClass()
- returns Nil. */
-objc_EXPORT Class objc_getClass (const char *name);
-
-/* Return the class with name 'name', if it is already registered with
- the runtime. Return Nil if not. This function does not call the
- objc_get_unknown_class_handler function if the class is not
- found. */
-objc_EXPORT Class objc_lookUpClass (const char *name);
-
-/* Return the meta class associated to the class with name 'name', if
- it is already registered with the runtime. First, it finds the
- class using objc_getClass(). Then, it returns the associated meta
- class. If the class could not be found using objc_getClass(),
- returns Nil. */
-objc_EXPORT Class objc_getMetaClass (const char *name);
-
-/* This is identical to objc_getClass(), but if the class is not found,
- it aborts the process instead of returning Nil. */
-objc_EXPORT Class objc_getRequiredClass (const char *name);
-
-/* If 'returnValue' is NULL, 'objc_getClassList' returns the number of
- classes currently registered with the runtime. If 'returnValue' is
- not NULL, it should be a (Class *) pointer to an area of memory
- which can contain up to 'maxNumberOfClassesToReturn' Class records.
- 'objc_getClassList' will fill the area pointed to by 'returnValue'
- with all the Classes registered with the runtime (or up to
- maxNumberOfClassesToReturn if there are more than
- maxNumberOfClassesToReturn). The function return value is the
- number of classes actually returned in 'returnValue'. */
-objc_EXPORT int objc_getClassList (Class *returnValue, int maxNumberOfClassesToReturn);
-
-/* Compatibility Note: The Apple/NeXT runtime also has
-
- Class objc_getFutureClass (const char *name);
- void objc_setFutureClass (Class class_, const char *name);
-
- the documentation is unclear on what they are supposed to do, and
- the GNU Objective-C Runtime currently does not provide them. */
-
-/* Return the name of the class 'class_', or the string "nil" if the
- class_ is Nil. */
-objc_EXPORT const char * class_getName (Class class_);
-
-/* Return YES if 'class_' is a meta class, and NO if not. If 'class_'
- is Nil, return NO. */
-objc_EXPORT BOOL class_isMetaClass (Class class_);
-
-/* Return the superclass of 'class_'. If 'class_' is Nil, or it is a
- root class, return Nil. This function also works if 'class_' is a
- class being constructed, that is, a class returned by
- objc_allocateClassPair() but before it has been registered with the
- runtime using objc_registerClassPair(). */
-objc_EXPORT Class class_getSuperclass (Class class_);
-
-/* Return the 'version' number of the class, which is an integer that
- can be used to track changes in the class API, methods and
- variables. If class_ is Nil, return 0. If class_ is not Nil, the
- version is 0 unless class_setVersion() has been called to set a
- different one.
-
- Please note that internally the version is a long, but the API only
- allows you to set and retrieve int values. */
-objc_EXPORT int class_getVersion (Class class_);
-
-/* Set the 'version' number of the class, which is an integer that can
- be used to track changes in the class API, methods and variables.
- If 'class_' is Nil, does nothing.
-
- This is typically used internally by "Foundation" libraries such as
- GNUstep Base to support serialization / deserialization of objects
- that work across changes in the classes. If you are using such a
- library, you probably want to use their versioning API, which may
- be based on this one, but is integrated with the rest of the
- library.
-
- Please note that internally the version is a long, but the API only
- allows you to set and retrieve int values. */
-objc_EXPORT void class_setVersion (Class class_, int version);
-
-/* Return the size in bytes (a byte is the size of a char) of an
- instance of the class. If class_ is Nil, return 0; else it return
- a non-zero number (since the 'isa' instance variable is required
- for all classes). */
-objc_EXPORT size_t class_getInstanceSize (Class class_);
-
-/* Change the implementation of the method. It also searches all
- classes for any class implementing the method, and replaces the
- existing implementation with the new one. For that to work,
- 'method' must be a method returned by class_getInstanceMethod() or
- class_getClassMethod() as the matching is done by comparing the
- pointers; in that case, only the implementation in the class is
- modified. Return the previous implementation that has been
- replaced. If method or implementation is NULL, do nothing and
- return NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT IMP
-method_setImplementation (Method method, IMP implementation);
-
-/* Swap the implementation of two methods in a single, atomic
- operation. This is equivalent to getting the implementation of
- each method and then calling method_setImplementation() on the
- other one. For this to work, the two methods must have been
- returned by class_getInstanceMethod() or class_getClassMethod().
- If 'method_a' or 'method_b' is NULL, do nothing. */
-objc_EXPORT void
-method_exchangeImplementations (Method method_a, Method method_b);
-
-/* Create a new class/meta-class pair. This function is called to
- create a new class at runtime. The class is created with
- superclass 'superclass' (use 'Nil' to create a new root class) and
- name 'class_name'. 'extraBytes' can be used to specify some extra
- space for indexed variables to be added at the end of the class and
- meta-class objects (it is recommended that you set extraBytes to
- 0). Once you have created the class, it is not usable yet. You
- need to add any instance variables (by using class_addIvar()), any
- instance methods (by using class_addMethod()) and any class methods
- (by using class_addMethod() on the meta-class, as in
- class_addMethod (object_getClass (class), method)) that are
- required, and then you need to call objc_registerClassPair() to
- activate the class. If you need to create a hierarchy of classes,
- you need to create and register them one at a time. You can not
- create a new class using another class in construction as
- superclass. Return Nil if 'class-name' is NULL or if a class with
- that name already exists or 'superclass' is a class still in
- construction.
-
- Implementation Note: in the GNU runtime, allocating a class pair
- only creates the structures for the class pair, but does not
- register anything with the runtime. The class is registered with
- the runtime only when objc_registerClassPair() is called. In
- particular, if a class is in construction, objc_getClass() will not
- find it, the superclass will not know about it,
- class_getSuperclass() will return Nil and another thread may
- allocate a class pair with the same name; the conflict will only be
- detected when the classes are registered with the runtime.
- */
-objc_EXPORT Class
-objc_allocateClassPair (Class super_class, const char *class_name,
- size_t extraBytes);
-
-/* Register a class pair that was created with
- objc_allocateClassPair(). After you register a class, you can no
- longer make changes to its instance variables, but you can start
- creating instances of it. Do nothing if 'class_' is NULL or if it
- is not a class allocated by objc_allocateClassPair() and still in
- construction. */
-objc_EXPORT void
-objc_registerClassPair (Class class_);
-
-/* Dispose of a class pair created using objc_allocateClassPair().
- Call this function if you started creating a new class with
- objc_allocateClassPair() but then want to abort the process. You
- should not access 'class_' after calling this method. Note that if
- 'class_' has already been registered with the runtime via
- objc_registerClassPair(), this function does nothing; you can only
- dispose of class pairs that are still being constructed. Do
- nothing if class is 'Nil' or if 'class_' is not a class being
- constructed. */
-objc_EXPORT void
-objc_disposeClassPair (Class class_);
-
-/* Compatibility Note: The Apple/NeXT runtime has the function
- objc_duplicateClass () but it's undocumented. The GNU runtime does
- not have it. */
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in sendmsg.c. */
-
-/* Return the instance method with selector 'selector' of class
- 'class_', or NULL if the class (or one of its superclasses) does
- not implement the method. Return NULL if class_ is Nil or selector
- is NULL. Calling this function may trigger a call to
- +resolveInstanceMethod:, but does not return a forwarding
- function. */
-objc_EXPORT Method class_getInstanceMethod (Class class_, SEL selector);
-
-/* Return the class method with selector 'selector' of class 'class_',
- or NULL if the class (or one of its superclasses) does not
- implement the method. Return NULL if class_ is Nil or selector is
- NULL. Calling this function may trigger a call to
- +resolveClassMethod:, but does not return a forwarding
- function. */
-objc_EXPORT Method class_getClassMethod (Class class_, SEL selector);
-
-/* Return the IMP (pointer to the function implementing a method) for
- the instance method with selector 'selector' in class 'class_'.
- This is the same routine that is used while messaging, and should
- be very fast. Note that you most likely would need to cast the
- return function pointer to a function pointer with the appropriate
- arguments and return type before calling it. To get a class
- method, you can pass the meta-class as the class_ argument (ie, use
- class_getMethodImplementation (object_getClass (class_),
- selector)). Return NULL if class_ is Nil or selector is NULL.
- This function first looks for an existing method; if it is not
- found, it calls +resolveClassMethod: or +resolveInstanceMethod:
- (depending on whether a class or instance method is being looked
- up) if it is implemented. If the method returns YES, then it tries
- the look up again (the assumption being that +resolveClassMethod:
- or resolveInstanceMethod: will add the method using
- class_addMethod()). If it is still not found, it returns a
- forwarding function. */
-objc_EXPORT IMP class_getMethodImplementation (Class class_, SEL selector);
-
-/* Compatibility Note: the Apple/NeXT runtime has the function
- class_getMethodImplementation_stret () which currently does not
- exist on the GNU runtime because the messaging implementation is
- different. */
-
-/* Return YES if class 'class_' has an instance method implementing
- selector 'selector', and NO if not. Return NO if class_ is Nil or
- selector is NULL. If you need to check a class method, use the
- meta-class as the class_ argument (ie, use class_respondsToSelector
- (object_getClass (class_), selector)). */
-objc_EXPORT BOOL class_respondsToSelector (Class class_, SEL selector);
-
-/* Add a method to a class. Use this function to add a new method to
- a class (potentially overriding a method with the same selector in
- the superclass); if you want to modify an existing method, use
- method_setImplementation() instead (or class_replaceMethod ()).
- This method adds an instance method to 'class_'; to add a class
- method, get the meta class first, then add the method to the meta
- class, that is, use
-
- class_addMethod (object_getClass (class_), selector,
- implementation, type);
-
- Return YES if the method was added, and NO if not. Do nothing if
- one of the arguments is NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT BOOL class_addMethod (Class class_, SEL selector, IMP implementation,
- const char *method_types);
-
-/* Replace a method in a class. If the class already have a method
- with this 'selector', find it and use method_setImplementation() to
- replace the implementation with 'implementation' (method_types is
- ignored in that case). If the class does not already have a method
- with this 'selector', call 'class_addMethod() to add it.
-
- Return the previous implementation of the method, or NULL if none
- was found. Return NULL if any of the arguments is NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT IMP class_replaceMethod (Class class_, SEL selector, IMP implementation,
- const char *method_types);
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in methods.c. */
-
-/* Return the selector for method 'method'. Return NULL if 'method'
- is NULL.
-
- This function is misnamed; it should be called
- 'method_getSelector'. To get the actual name, get the selector,
- then the name from the selector (ie, use sel_getName
- (method_getName (method))). */
-objc_EXPORT SEL method_getName (Method method);
-
-/* Return the IMP of the method. Return NULL if 'method' is NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT IMP method_getImplementation (Method method);
-
-/* Return the type encoding of the method. Return NULL if 'method' is
- NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT const char * method_getTypeEncoding (Method method);
-
-/* Return a method description for the method. Return NULL if
- 'method' is NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT struct objc_method_description * method_getDescription (Method method);
-
-/* Return all the instance methods of the class. The return value of
- the function is a pointer to an area, allocated with malloc(), that
- contains all the instance methods of the class. It does not
- include instance methods of superclasses. The list is terminated
- by NULL. Optionally, if you pass a non-NULL
- 'numberOfReturnedMethods' pointer, the unsigned int that it points
- to will be filled with the number of instance methods returned. To
- get the list of class methods, pass the meta-class in the 'class_'
- argument, (ie, use class_copyMethodList (object_getClass (class_),
- &numberOfReturnedMethods)). */
-objc_EXPORT Method * class_copyMethodList (Class class_, unsigned int *numberOfReturnedMethods);
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in encoding.c. */
-
-/* Return the number of arguments that the method 'method' expects.
- Note that all methods need two implicit arguments ('self' for the
- receiver, and '_cmd' for the selector). Return 0 if 'method' is
- NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT unsigned int method_getNumberOfArguments (Method method);
-
-/* Return the string encoding for the return type of method 'method'.
- The string is a standard zero-terminated string in an area of
- memory allocated with malloc(); you should free it with free() when
- you finish using it. Return an empty string if method is NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT char * method_copyReturnType (Method method);
-
-/* Return the string encoding for the argument type of method
- 'method', argument number 'argumentNumber' ('argumentNumber' is 0
- for self, 1 for _cmd, and 2 or more for the additional arguments if
- any). The string is a standard zero-terminated string in an area
- of memory allocated with malloc(); you should free it with free()
- when you finish using it. Return an empty string if method is NULL
- or if 'argumentNumber' refers to a non-existing argument. */
-objc_EXPORT char * method_copyArgumentType (Method method, unsigned int argumentNumber);
-
-/* Return the string encoding for the return type of method 'method'.
- The string is returned by copying it into the supplied
- 'returnValue' string, which is of size 'returnValueSize'. No more
- than 'returnValueSize' characters are copied; if the encoding is
- smaller than 'returnValueSize', the rest of 'returnValue' is filled
- with zeros. If it is bigger, it is truncated (and would not be
- zero-terminated). You should supply a big enough
- 'returnValueSize'. If the method is NULL, returnValue is set to a
- string of zeros. */
-objc_EXPORT void method_getReturnType (Method method, char *returnValue,
- size_t returnValueSize);
-
-/* Return the string encoding for the argument type of method
- 'method', argument number 'argumentNumber' ('argumentNumber' is 0
- for self, 1 for _cmd, and 2 or more for the additional arguments if
- any). The string is returned by copying it into the supplied
- 'returnValue' string, which is of size 'returnValueSize'. No more
- than 'returnValueSize' characters are copied; if the encoding is
- smaller than 'returnValueSize', the rest of 'returnValue' is filled
- with zeros. If it is bigger, it is truncated (and would not be
- zero-terminated). You should supply a big enough
- 'returnValueSize'. If the method is NULL, returnValue is set to a
- string of zeros. */
-objc_EXPORT void method_getArgumentType (Method method, unsigned int argumentNumber,
- char *returnValue, size_t returnValueSize);
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in protocols.c. */
-
-/* Return the protocol with name 'name', or nil if it the protocol is
- not known to the runtime. */
-objc_EXPORT Protocol *objc_getProtocol (const char *name);
-
-/* Return all the protocols known to the runtime. The return value of
- the function is a pointer to an area, allocated with malloc(), that
- contains all the protocols known to the runtime; the list is
- terminated by NULL. You should free this area using free() once
- you no longer need it. Optionally, if you pass a non-NULL
- 'numberOfReturnedProtocols' pointer, the unsigned int that it
- points to will be filled with the number of protocols returned. If
- there are no protocols known to the runtime, NULL is returned. */
-objc_EXPORT Protocol **objc_copyProtocolList (unsigned int *numberOfReturnedProtocols);
-
-/* Add a protocol to a class, and return YES if it was done
- succesfully, and NO if not. At the moment, NO should only happen
- if class_ or protocol are nil, if the protocol is not a Protocol
- object or if the class already conforms to the protocol. */
-objc_EXPORT BOOL class_addProtocol (Class class_, Protocol *protocol);
-
-/* Return YES if the class 'class_' conforms to Protocol 'protocol',
- and NO if not. This function does not check superclasses; if you
- want to check for superclasses (in the way that [NSObject
- +conformsToProtocol:] does) you need to iterate over the class
- hierarchy using class_getSuperclass(), and call
- class_conformsToProtocol() for each of them. */
-objc_EXPORT BOOL class_conformsToProtocol (Class class_, Protocol *protocol);
-
-/* Return all the protocols that the class conforms to. The return
- value of the function is a pointer to an area, allocated with
- malloc(), that contains all the protocols formally adopted by the
- class. It does not include protocols adopted by superclasses. The
- list is terminated by NULL. Optionally, if you pass a non-NULL
- 'numberOfReturnedProtocols' pointer, the unsigned int that it
- points to will be filled with the number of protocols returned.
- This function does not return protocols that superclasses conform
- to. */
-objc_EXPORT Protocol **class_copyProtocolList (Class class_, unsigned int *numberOfReturnedProtocols);
-
-/* Return YES if protocol 'protocol' conforms to protocol
- 'anotherProtocol', and NO if not. Note that if one of the two
- protocols is nil, it returns NO. */
-objc_EXPORT BOOL protocol_conformsToProtocol (Protocol *protocol, Protocol *anotherProtocol);
-
-/* Return YES if protocol 'protocol' is the same as protocol
- 'anotherProtocol', and 'NO' if not. Note that it returns YES if
- the two protocols are both nil. */
-objc_EXPORT BOOL protocol_isEqual (Protocol *protocol, Protocol *anotherProtocol);
-
-/* Return the name of protocol 'protocol'. If 'protocol' is nil or is
- not a Protocol, return NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT const char *protocol_getName (Protocol *protocol);
-
-/* Return the method description for the method with selector
- 'selector' in protocol 'protocol'; if 'requiredMethod' is YES, the
- function searches the list of required methods; if NO, the list of
- optional methods. If 'instanceMethod' is YES, the function search
- for an instance method; if NO, for a class method. If there is no
- matching method, an objc_method_description structure with both
- name and types set to NULL is returned. This function will only
- find methods that are directly declared in the protocol itself, not
- in other protocols that this protocol adopts.
-
- Note that the traditional ABI does not store the list of optional
- methods of a protocol in a compiled module, so the traditional ABI
- will always return (NULL, NULL) when requiredMethod == NO. */
-objc_EXPORT struct objc_method_description protocol_getMethodDescription (Protocol *protocol,
- SEL selector,
- BOOL requiredMethod,
- BOOL instanceMethod);
-
-/* Return the method descriptions of all the methods of the protocol.
- The return value of the function is a pointer to an area, allocated
- with malloc(), that contains all the method descriptions of the
- methods of the protocol. It does not recursively include methods
- of the protocols adopted by this protocol. The list is terminated
- by a NULL objc_method_description (one with both fields set to
- NULL). Optionally, if you pass a non-NULL
- 'numberOfReturnedMethods' pointer, the unsigned int that it points
- to will be filled with the number of properties returned.
-
- Note that the traditional ABI does not store the list of optional
- methods of a protocol in a compiled module, so the traditional ABI
- will always return an empty list if requiredMethod is set to
- NO. */
-objc_EXPORT struct objc_method_description *protocol_copyMethodDescriptionList (Protocol *protocol,
- BOOL requiredMethod,
- BOOL instanceMethod,
- unsigned int *numberOfReturnedMethods);
-
-/* Return the property with name 'propertyName' of the protocol
- 'protocol'. If 'requiredProperty' is YES, the function searches
- the list of required properties; if NO, the list of optional
- properties. If 'instanceProperty' is YES, the function searches
- the list of instance properties; if NO, the list of class
- properties. At the moment, optional properties and class
- properties are not part of the Objective-C language, so both
- 'requiredProperty' and 'instanceProperty' should be set to YES.
- This function returns NULL if the required property can not be
- found.
-
- Note that the traditional ABI does not store the list of properties
- of a protocol in a compiled module, so the traditional ABI will
- always return NULL. */
-objc_EXPORT Property protocol_getProperty (Protocol *protocol, const char *propertyName,
- BOOL requiredProperty, BOOL instanceProperty);
-
-/* Return all the properties of the protocol. The return value of the
- function is a pointer to an area, allocated with malloc(), that
- contains all the properties of the protocol. It does not
- recursively include properties of the protocols adopted by this
- protocol. The list is terminated by NULL. Optionally, if you pass
- a non-NULL 'numberOfReturnedProperties' pointer, the unsigned int
- that it points to will be filled with the number of properties
- returned.
-
- Note that the traditional ABI does not store the list of properties
- of a protocol in a compiled module, so the traditional ABI will
- always return NULL and store 0 in numberOfReturnedProperties. */
-objc_EXPORT Property *protocol_copyPropertyList (Protocol *protocol, unsigned int *numberOfReturnedProperties);
-
-/* Return all the protocols that the protocol conforms to. The return
- value of the function is a pointer to an area, allocated with
- malloc(), that contains all the protocols formally adopted by the
- protocol. It does not recursively include protocols adopted by the
- protocols adopted by this protocol. The list is terminated by
- NULL. Optionally, if you pass a non-NULL
- 'numberOfReturnedProtocols' pointer, the unsigned int that it
- points to will be filled with the number of protocols returned. */
-objc_EXPORT Protocol **protocol_copyProtocolList (Protocol *protocol, unsigned int *numberOfReturnedProtocols);
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following hook is in init.c. */
-
-/* This is a hook which is called by __objc_exec_class every time a
- class or a category is loaded into the runtime. This may e.g. help
- a dynamic loader determine the classes that have been loaded when
- an object file is dynamically linked in. */
-objc_EXPORT void (*_objc_load_callback)(Class _class, struct objc_category *category);
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in objc-foreach.c. */
-
-/* 'objc_enumerationMutation()' is called when a collection is
- mutated while being "fast enumerated". That is a hard error, and
- objc_enumerationMutation is called to deal with it. 'collection'
- is the collection object that was mutated during an enumeration.
-
- objc_enumerationMutation() will invoke the mutation handler if any
- is set. Then, it will abort the program.
-
- Compatibility note: the Apple runtime will not abort the program
- after calling the mutation handler. */
-objc_EXPORT void objc_enumerationMutation (id collection);
-
-/* 'objc_set_enumeration_mutation_handler' can be used to set a
- function that will be called (instead of aborting) when a fast
- enumeration is mutated during enumeration. The handler will be
- called with the 'collection' being mutated as the only argument and
- it should not return; it should either exit the program, or could
- throw an exception. The recommended implementation is to throw an
- exception - the user can then use exception handlers to deal with
- it.
-
- This function is not thread safe (other threads may be trying to
- invoke the enumeration mutation handler while you are changing it!)
- and should be called during during the program initialization
- before threads are started. It is mostly reserved for "Foundation"
- libraries; in the case of GNUstep, GNUstep Base may be using this
- function to improve the standard enumeration mutation handling.
- You probably shouldn't use this function unless you are writing
- your own Foundation library. */
-objc_EXPORT void objc_setEnumerationMutationHandler (void (*handler)(id));
-
-/* This structure (used during fast enumeration) is automatically
- defined by the compiler (it is as if this definition was always
- included in all Objective-C files). Note that it is usually
- defined again with the name of NSFastEnumeration by "Foundation"
- libraries such as GNUstep Base. And if NSFastEnumeration is
- defined, the compiler will use it instead of
- __objcFastEnumerationState when doing fast enumeration. */
-/*
-struct __objcFastEnumerationState
-{
- unsigned long state;
- id *itemsPtr;
- unsigned long *mutationsPtr;
- unsigned long extra[5];
-};
-*/
-
-
-/* Compatibility Note: The Apple/NeXT runtime has the functions
- objc_copyImageNames (), class_getImageName () and
- objc_copyClassNamesForImage () but they are undocumented. The GNU
- runtime does not have them at the moment. */
-
-/* Compatibility Note: The Apple/NeXT runtime has the functions
- objc_setAssociatedObject (), objc_getAssociatedObject (),
- objc_removeAssociatedObjects () and the objc_AssociationPolicy type
- and related enum. The GNU runtime does not have them yet.
- TODO: Implement them. */
-
-/* Compatibility Note: The Apple/NeXT runtime has the function
- objc_setForwardHandler (). The GNU runtime does not have it
- because messaging (and, in particular, forwarding) works in a
- different (incompatible) way with the GNU runtime. If you need to
- customize message forwarding at the Objective-C runtime level (that
- is, if you are implementing your own "Foundation" library such as
- GNUstep Base on top of the Objective-C runtime), in objc/message.h
- there are hooks (that work in the framework of the GNU runtime) to
- do so. */
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in memory.c. */
-
-/* Traditional GNU Objective-C Runtime functions that are used for
- memory allocation and disposal. These functions are used in the
- same way as you use malloc, realloc, calloc and free and make sure
- that memory allocation works properly with the garbage
- collector.
-
- Compatibility Note: these functions are not available with the
- Apple/NeXT runtime. */
-
-objc_EXPORT void *objc_malloc(size_t size);
-
-/* FIXME: Shouldn't the following be called objc_malloc_atomic ? The
- GC function is GC_malloc_atomic() which makes sense.
- */
-objc_EXPORT void *objc_atomic_malloc(size_t size);
-
-objc_EXPORT void *objc_realloc(void *mem, size_t size);
-
-objc_EXPORT void *objc_calloc(size_t nelem, size_t size);
-
-objc_EXPORT void objc_free(void *mem);
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in gc.c. */
-
-/* The GNU Objective-C Runtime has a different implementation of
- garbage collection.
-
- Compatibility Note: these functions are not available with the
- Apple/NeXT runtime. */
-
-/* Mark the instance variable as inaccessible to the garbage
- collector. */
-objc_EXPORT void class_ivar_set_gcinvisible (Class _class,
- const char* ivarname,
- BOOL gcInvisible);
-
-
-/** Implementation: the following functions are in encoding.c. */
-
-/* Traditional GNU Objective-C Runtime functions that are currently
- used to implement method forwarding.
-
- Compatibility Note: these functions are not available with the
- Apple/NeXT runtime. */
-
-/* Return the size of a variable which has the specified 'type'
- encoding. */
-objc_EXPORT int objc_sizeof_type (const char *type);
-
-/* Return the align of a variable which has the specified 'type'
- encoding. */
-objc_EXPORT int objc_alignof_type (const char *type);
-
-/* Return the aligned size of a variable which has the specified
- 'type' encoding. The aligned size is the size rounded up to the
- nearest alignment. */
-objc_EXPORT int objc_aligned_size (const char *type);
-
-/* Return the promoted size of a variable which has the specified
- 'type' encoding. This is the size rounded up to the nearest
- integral of the wordsize, taken to be the size of a void *. */
-objc_EXPORT int objc_promoted_size (const char *type);
-
-
-/* The following functions are used when parsing the type encoding of
- methods, to skip over parts that are ignored. They take as
- argument a pointer to a location inside the type encoding of a
- method (which is a string) and return a new pointer, pointing to a
- new location inside the string after having skipped the unwanted
- information. */
-
-/* Skip some type qualifiers (_C_CONST, _C_IN, etc). These may
- eventually precede typespecs occurring in method prototype
- encodings. */
-objc_EXPORT const char *objc_skip_type_qualifiers (const char *type);
-
-/* Skip one typespec element (_C_CLASS, _C_SEL, etc). If the typespec
- is prepended by type qualifiers, these are skipped as well. */
-objc_EXPORT const char *objc_skip_typespec (const char *type);
-
-/* Skip an offset. */
-objc_EXPORT const char *objc_skip_offset (const char *type);
-
-/* Skip an argument specification (ie, skipping a typespec, which may
- include qualifiers, and an offset too). */
-objc_EXPORT const char *objc_skip_argspec (const char *type);
-
-/* Read type qualifiers (_C_CONST, _C_IN, etc) from string 'type'
- (stopping at the first non-type qualifier found) and return an
- unsigned int which is the logical OR of all the corresponding flags
- (_F_CONST, _F_IN etc). */
-objc_EXPORT unsigned objc_get_type_qualifiers (const char *type);
-
-
-/* Note that the following functions work for very simple structures,
- but get easily confused by more complicated ones (for example,
- containing vectors). A better solution is required. These
- functions are likely to change in the next GCC release. */
-
-/* The following three functions can be used to determine how a
- structure is laid out by the compiler. For example:
-
- struct objc_struct_layout layout;
- int i;
-
- objc_layout_structure (type, &layout);
- while (objc_layout_structure_next_member (&layout))
- {
- int position, align;
- const char *type;
-
- objc_layout_structure_get_info (&layout, &position, &align, &type);
- printf ("element %d has offset %d, alignment %d\n",
- i++, position, align);
- }
-
- These functions are used by objc_sizeof_type and objc_alignof_type
- functions to compute the size and alignment of structures. The
- previous method of computing the size and alignment of a structure
- was not working on some architectures, particulary on AIX, and in
- the presence of bitfields inside the structure. */
-struct objc_struct_layout
-{
- const char *original_type;
- const char *type;
- const char *prev_type;
- unsigned int record_size;
- unsigned int record_align;
-};
-
-objc_EXPORT void objc_layout_structure (const char *type,
- struct objc_struct_layout *layout);
-objc_EXPORT BOOL objc_layout_structure_next_member (struct objc_struct_layout *layout);
-objc_EXPORT void objc_layout_finish_structure (struct objc_struct_layout *layout,
- unsigned int *size,
- unsigned int *align);
-objc_EXPORT void objc_layout_structure_get_info (struct objc_struct_layout *layout,
- unsigned int *offset,
- unsigned int *align,
- const char **type);
-
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-}
-#endif /* __cplusplus */
-
-#endif