On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 17:19 +0100, Come Lonfils wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to know more about how messages are send to the objects in > objective-C Messages are send via a dynamic lookup using strings. For the GNU runtime, objc_msg_lookup is called to get the function pointer and then we cast it to the "correct" type and calls the function pointer.
> , how they are store,... At runtime, they are stored in a hashtable (at least for the GNU runtime) for most cases. > In which structures en how? MethodList_t at the startup time in the GNU runtime (as defined in objc/objc-api.h in libobjc). > Where should I look in the source code of gcc to know it? objc-act.c I don't know how much about how the NeXT runtime works except instead of a function pointer, it uses a call to a function to call the messages. Thanks, Andrew Pinski
