Re: [Pyobjc-dev] instrumentObjcMessageSends

[Michael M. <mic...@gm...>]

On Jan 6, 2008 11:10 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ron...@ma...> wrote:
>
> On 6 Jan, 2008, at 21:21, Jon Christopher wrote:
>
> > Many apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but I
> > couldn't find anywhere else.
> >
> > I'd like to call the instrumentObjcMessageSends(YES)  function which
> > is part of the objc runtime so that I can log all objc-messages, but I
> > can't figure out how to access it from python.
> > This function has the same effect as NSObjCMessageLoggingEnabled=TRUE
> > (see http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2124.html)
> >
> > I can create and call objc classes, but instrumentObjcMessageSends is
> > a free function.  I'd appreciate any pointers as to how to call this
> > function, or runtime free functions in general, for that matter.
>
> You cannot easily call runtime functions.  Because
> instrumentObjcMessageSends isn't a public API I won't add it to PyObjC.
>
> It should be possible to call it using objc.loadBundleFunctions, but I
> don't have time to look into that right now.
>

Wouldn't it be possible to just wrap that function with a C extension module?

Or if you really want every message send, just add it to your main.m?

-mike

(PS, sorry Ronald for the accidental double-reply.)

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