Re: RFC: [GDL2/base] unableToSetNullForKey: / unableToSetNilForKey:

[David Ayers]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 08:20  am, Stéphane Corthésy wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I suggest you to change function GSObjCReplaceImplementation to 
> > return the old IMP pointer: this allows us more tricky things like 
> > overloading methods (not simply replacing) by providing a 
> > complementary implementation and calling eventually the original 
> > implementation,  a trick I suggested some time ago. Should/could it 
> > not be done in your case? Do you really want to replace the whole 
> > original implementation, or just extend it?
>
>
> Good point.
> I second that idea.
Commited:

       * Headers/gnustep/base/GSObjCRuntime.h
       * Source/Additions/GSObjCRuntime.m (GSObjCReplaceImplementation):
       Added new function.
       * Source/Additions/GSObjCRuntime.m (search_for_method_in_class):
       Renamed static function for NeXT runtime to better reflect
       reality.
       (GSObjCAddMethods): Updated usage.
       (search_for_method_in_class): New static function for GNU runtime.
       (flush_method_cache_for_class): New function.

Cheers,
Dave