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<title>Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC): Messaging with the GNU Objective-C runtime</title>
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<link href="Objective_002dC.html#Objective_002dC" rel="up" title="Objective-C">
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<link href="Dynamically-registering-methods.html#Dynamically-registering-methods" rel="next" title="Dynamically registering methods">
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Previous: <a href="Fast-enumeration.html#Fast-enumeration" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Fast enumeration</a>, Up: <a href="Objective_002dC.html#Objective_002dC" accesskey="u" rel="up">Objective-C</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<a name="Messaging-with-the-GNU-Objective_002dC-Runtime"></a>
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<h3 class="section">8.10 Messaging with the GNU Objective-C Runtime</h3>
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<p>This section is specific for the GNU Objective-C runtime. If you are
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using a different runtime, you can skip it.
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</p>
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<p>The implementation of messaging in the GNU Objective-C runtime is
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designed to be portable, and so is based on standard C.
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</p>
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<p>Sending a message in the GNU Objective-C runtime is composed of two
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separate steps. First, there is a call to the lookup function,
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<code>objc_msg_lookup ()</code> (or, in the case of messages to super,
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<code>objc_msg_lookup_super ()</code>). This runtime function takes as
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argument the receiver and the selector of the method to be called; it
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returns the <code>IMP</code>, that is a pointer to the function implementing
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the method. The second step of method invocation consists of casting
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this pointer function to the appropriate function pointer type, and
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calling the function pointed to it with the right arguments.
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<p>For example, when the compiler encounters a method invocation such as
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<code>[object init]</code>, it compiles it into a call to
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<code>objc_msg_lookup (object, @selector(init))</code> followed by a cast
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of the returned value to the appropriate function pointer type, and
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then it calls it.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Dynamically-registering-methods.html#Dynamically-registering-methods" accesskey="1">Dynamically registering methods</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Forwarding-hook.html#Forwarding-hook" accesskey="2">Forwarding hook</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">
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