Also, regarding the purpose of the work.. I'm gonna guess that we're seeing the first steps of a workaround for the fragile ivars problem. That is, I bet they want to be able to add ivars in categories, and add ivars to classes without recompiling subclasses.
There are some Apple docs for load, initialize and the constructor attribute at .
by ken — Nov 29
There are some Apple docs for load, initialize and the constructor attribute at .