ANN: RuntimeBrowser port and questions

[Yen-Ju Chen]

Hi,

 I port the RuntimeBrowser 
(http://www.prajnait.com/source/RuntimeBrowser.html)
 to GNUstep in order to understand some details of objc-runtime.

 Here is the port: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~yc2w/GNUstep/english/
 It is not perfect in many places.

 After the porting, I still have some questions about the runtime system
 and hope someone can answer them.

 Is the objc-runtime one per application ?
 Or every application shares a single objc-runtime ?
 In the later case, any application can get the classes of other 
applicaions,
 which is sort of weird and exposes some potential security problems.

 If each application has its own objc-runtime,
 is it possible that an application use NSBundle to load other applications
 and get their classes from objc-runtime ?
 RuntimeBrowser seems to do so, but doesn't work on FreeBSD
 due to some memory problem.
 I just wonder whether it is prohibited.

 Thanx.

 Have fun.

 Yen-Ju


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