Re: Discovery from class-dumping Yosemite system libraries.

[Ivan Vučica]

Unless you are a lawyer and are prepared to offer legal advice, let's not discuss such semantics.

Let me also voice uneasiness at reading content resulting directly from reverse engineering on GNUstep's mailing list. There are some topics that may be best discussed off-list. Results of not-quite-necessary reverse engineering is one of them. Especially if you go ahead and explicitly say 'I class-dumped'.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:21 PM, ChanMaxthon <address@hidden> wrote:

Is making frameworks source compatible interoperability?

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 8, 2015, at 18:16, Gregory Casamento <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Chan,
>
> In the interest of being cautious, please, in the future, I would
> prefer that you do NOT post reverse engineered information to this
> list.    In the US such information is okay to use for the purposes of
> interoperability, but it becomes of questionable legality given that
> there are people on this list who are not in the US and local laws in
> their countries may vary.
>
> Thanks, GC
>
>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 6:11 AM, ChanMaxthon <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I class-dumped Apple's system libraries and discovered this:
>>
>> NSObject is implemented in libobjc.dylib, despite header appeared in Foundation.framework
>>
>> NSArray and friends, Objective-C classes that is toll-free bridged to CoreFoundation types, are implemented in CoreFoundation.framework, despite header appeared in Foundation.framework
>>
>> CF types does have a one-to-one mapping to internal Objective-C classes, being subclasses of respective public umbrella classes or _NSCFType class for non-TFB types. This suggests that the polymorphic CoreFoundation functions maps to Objective-C methods on NSObject.
>>
>> Apple did not make NSSet/CFBag and NS/CFRunLoop TFB but we can make that happen without breaking Apple's interface contracts.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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