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Asked: 2026-05-13T16:09:47+00:00

I have: BOOL someBoolValue = … //some code returning BOOL when I try to

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I have:

 BOOL someBoolValue = ... //some code returning BOOL

when I try to invoke:

[self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(refreshView:) withObject:someBoolValue waitUntilDone:NO];

I’m getting a warning:

cast to pointer from integer of different size

Any hints on this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are passing a “raw” boolean value, where an id (pointer to an object) should be.

    [self performSelectorOnMainThread: @selector(refreshView:) 
      withObject:someBoolValue 
      waitUntilDone:NO]

    should better be

    [self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(refreshView:) 
      withObject: [NSNumber numberWithBool: someBoolValue] 
      waitUntilDone: NO]

    You can extract the boolean value in your refreshView: method by sending the boolValue method to the number object:

    if( [myWrappedBoolean boolValue] ) {
    ...
}

    Unlike Java or C#, Objective-C has no “autoboxing” from primitive values to objects. The BOOL type is just a small integer type, which causes the error message you are seeing, because the compiler needs a pointer for the second argument to performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone:.

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