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Asked: 2026-06-01T11:56:19+00:00

Yes, I saw this: If the method returns a struct, as defined by the

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Yes, I saw this:

If the method returns a struct, as defined by the Mac OS X ABI Function Call Guide to be returned in registers, then a message sent to nil returns 0.0 for every field in the struct. Other struct data types will not be filled with zeros.

I just don’t get it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you’re using recent versions of the LLVM Compiler (Xcode 4.2 or later), then yes, messaging nil with a struct-returning method will produce a zero-filled struct. In the case of CGRect, that means a rect equal to CGRectZero.

    Source: Greg Parker, who works at Apple on the ObjC runtime.

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