isEqualTo

Declaration

virtual bool isEqualTo(
 const OSMetaClassBase *anObject) const;

Parameters

• anObject:

  The object to copmare to the receiver.

Return Value

true if the objects are equal, false otherwise.

Overview

OSMetaClassBase implements this as a direct pointer comparison, since it has no other information to judge equality by. Subclasses generally override this function to do a more meaningful comparison. For example, OSString implements it to return true if anObject is derived from OSString and represents the same C string.

See Also

Miscellaneous

• OSCheckTypeInst
• OSDynamicCast
• OSMemberFunctionCast
• OSSafeRelease
• OSSafeReleaseNULL
• OSTypeAlloc
• OSTypeID
• OSTypeIDInst
• checkTypeInst
• getMetaClass
• getRetainCount
• metaCast(const char *)
• metaCast(const OSMetaClass *)
• metaCast(const OSString *)
• metaCast(const OSSymbol *)
• release()
• release(int)
• retain
• safeMetaCast
• serialize
• taggedRelease(const void *)
• taggedRelease(const void *, const int)
• taggedRetain