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Macros in C / Objective-C 06/27/2018
Macro is a quite different programming technique. Why do we need to use it nowadays? And what types of tasks could be solved using macros? And several real-world examples.
objective-c c-preprocessor macros Exploring Mach-O binaries. Tools - nm 05/05/2018
Checking out how to deal with mach-o symbol table using nm
mach-o disassembly disassembly-tools nm binaries command-line tryLock vs lock 03/22/2017
Trying to understand the logic behind synchronization approaches used in reference counting in Objective-C
multithreading locks synchronization disassembly osx NSObject Internals. Episode 4 - retain and release 03/08/2017
Exploring two basic operations for memory management in Objective-C using the available source code
objective-c nsobject nsobject-internals retain release memory-management NSObject Internals. Episode 3 - autorelease and @autoreleasePool 02/28/2017
New episode shows another side of memory management in Objective-C - implementation of autorelease and autorelease pool
objective-c nsobject nsobject-internals autorelease autorelease-pool memory-management Exploring Mach-O binaries. Tools - pagestuff 02/12/2017
More about binaries and disassembly in OS X. And pretty simple, but still powerful tool - pagestuff
mach-o disassembly disassembly-tools pagestuff binaries command-line NSObject Internals. Episode 2 - Properties (accessors) 01/22/2017
In the second episode we'll see how properties are implemented and what actually attributes do to the properties
objective-c nsobject nsobject-internals property NSObject Internals. Episode 1 - alloc 01/15/2017
Start of the new series where we're digging into NSObject source code. In the first episode, we'll check how [NSObject alloc] looks inside and learn some tricks
objective-c nsobject nsobject-internals Swift and Multiple Inheritance 11/15/2016
Some aspects of multiple inheritance using protocols in Swift
oop swift multiple-inheritance