Re: Replacements for Depracated NSIsSymbolNameDefined(), NSLookupAndBindSymbol()

FROM : Ricky Sharp
DATE : Mon Dec 31 18:00:59 2007

On Dec 31, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> I've been waiting for Apple to update its 'MoreUNIX.c' Sample Code 
> to replace the depracated functions NSIsSymbolNameDefined() and 
> NSLookupAndBindSymbol() and stop getting compiler warnings.  But it 
> looks like maybe it's never going to happen, since MoreAuthSample 
> has been replaced by BetterAuthSample (which requires 10.4.6 or 
> later).
>
> Does anyone know what these functions do and/or how to replace them 
> with non-depracated functions?  They're declared in dyld.h in the 
> 10.4u SDK, but no documentation shows when searching API in Xcode.


Look deeper; doing a "Full-Text" search on those symbols reveals they 
are documented in the "Mac OSX ABI Dynamic Loader Reference".  That 
doc also mentions the deprecation and replacement APIs.

Note that it could be deemed a documentation bug (index?) in that an 
API search didn't reveal these.
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