Introduction

Describes the Objective-C 2.0 runtime support library.

Organization of This Document

This document has the following chapters:

Runtime Versions and Platforms

Interacting with the Runtime

Messaging

Dynamic Method Resolution

Message Forwarding

Type Encodings

Declared Properties

Objective-C Runtime Reference describes the data structures and functions of the Objective-C runtime support library. Your programs can use these interfaces to interact with the Objective-C runtime system. For example, you can add classes or methods, or obtain a list of all class definitions for loaded classes.

Programming with Objective-C describes the Objective-C language.

Objective-C Release Notes describes some of the changes in the Objective-C runtime in recent releases of OS X.

Introduction

Organization of This Document

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