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Asked: 2026-05-24T14:09:31+00:00

Is it possible to use Forwarding ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#Forwarding ) in iOS? I tried the

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Is it possible to use “Forwarding” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#Forwarding) in iOS?

I tried the following code I found here:

- (retval_t) forward: (SEL) sel : (arglist_t) args

But I get an error message:

error: expected ‘)’ before ‘retval_t’

So I read here and try:

- (retval_t)forward:(SEL)sel args:(arglist_t) args

But I got the same error message…

What am I doing wrong? Do I need to import something?

@bbum: I try to create a thread safe NSMutableArray and want to use the code I found here:
NSMutableDictionary thread safety

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes. What you’re seeing there is the GNU variant of Objective-C, which is slightly different from the Apple variant.

    You want to use -forwardInvocation: rather than -forward:: or -forward:args:. See http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjCRuntimeGuide/Articles/ocrtForwarding.html for more info on how to do it with iOS.

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