动因

上次写代码时需要深入了解Block。发现Block is nothing but a struct。今天又拾一下牙慧，汇总一下资料。顺便记录几个源码中的发现

值得读的参考

最好的文档

中文的话，这篇也够了,讲得比较细：这篇也讲解得不错：

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参考代码写在前面

enum { // Flags from BlockLiteral    BLOCK_DEALLOCATING =      (0x0001),  // runtime    BLOCK_REFCOUNT_MASK =     (0xfffe),  // runtime    BLOCK_NEEDS_FREE =        (1 << 24), // runtime    BLOCK_HAS_COPY_DISPOSE =  (1 << 25), // compiler    BLOCK_HAS_CTOR =          (1 << 26), // compiler: helpers have C++ code    BLOCK_IS_GC =             (1 << 27), // runtime    BLOCK_IS_GLOBAL =         (1 << 28), // compiler    BLOCK_USE_STRET =         (1 << 29), // compiler: undefined if !BLOCK_HAS_SIGNATURE    BLOCK_HAS_SIGNATURE  =    (1 << 30), // compiler    BLOCK_HAS_EXTENDED_LAYOUT=(1 << 31)  // compiler};#define BLOCK_DESCRIPTOR_1 1struct Block_descriptor_1 {    uintptr_t reserved;    uintptr_t size;};#define BLOCK_DESCRIPTOR_2 1struct Block_descriptor_2 {    // requires BLOCK_HAS_COPY_DISPOSE    void (*copy)(void *dst, const void *src);    void (*dispose)(const void *);};#define BLOCK_DESCRIPTOR_3 1struct Block_descriptor_3 {    // requires BLOCK_HAS_SIGNATURE    const char *signature;    const char *layout;     // contents depend on BLOCK_HAS_EXTENDED_LAYOUT};struct Block_layout {    void *isa;    volatile int32_t flags; // contains ref count    int32_t reserved;     void (*invoke)(void *, ...);    struct Block_descriptor_1 *descriptor;    // imported variables};

Block中的isa

这也是为什么Block能当做id类型的参数进行传递。

但如Clang文档中所述:

The isa field is set to the address of the external _NSConcreteStackBlock, which is a block of uninitialized memory supplied in libSystem, or _NSConcreteGlobalBlock if this is a static or file level Block literal.

首先_NSConcreteStackBlock是外部的，是libSystem提供的地址，a block of uninitialized memory，实际情况是(模拟器)：

(lldb) p &_NSConcreteStackBlock(void *(*)[32]) $25 = 0x00000001108dc050(lldb) p _NSConcreteStackBlock(void *[32]) $26 = {  [0] = 0x00000001108dc0d0  [1] = 0x000000010e2e6000  [2] = 0x00007f8b88d0d100  [3] = 0x0000000400000007  [4] = 0x00007f8b8aa00310  [5] = 0x0000000000000000  [6] = 0x0000000000000000  [7] = 0x0000000000000000  [8] = 0x0000000000000000  [9] = 0x0000000000000000  [10] = 0x0000000000000000  [11] = 0x0000000000000000  [12] = 0x0000000000000000  [13] = 0x0000000000000000  [14] = 0x0000000000000000  [15] = 0x0000000000000000  [16] = 0x000000010de91198  [17] = 0x000000010e2e5fd8  [18] = 0x000000010db4cf70  [19] = 0x0000000000000000  [20] = 0x00007f8b8aa00350  [21] = 0x0000000000000000  [22] = 0x0000000000000000  [23] = 0x0000000000000000  [24] = 0x0000000000000000  [25] = 0x0000000000000000  [26] = 0x0000000000000000  [27] = 0x0000000000000000  [28] = 0x0000000000000000  [29] = 0x0000000000000000  [30] = 0x0000000000000000  [31] = 0x0000000000000000}

分析之后的结果是这样的：

• 所有stack Block的isa都指向_NSConcreteStackBlock，runtime的时候已经初始化了。何时初始化未知。

• _NSConcreteStackBlock是个数组，size为32

• 水平有限，没看出规律。应该是被平分成两部分，第二部分从_NSConcreteStackBlock[16]开始

• 元素都是Class（废话），如__NSStackBlock__,__NSStackBlock

• _NSConcreteGlobalBlock类似

• 代码也说明了这一点：

BLOCK_EXPORT void * _NSConcreteMallocBlock[32]    __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_6, __IPHONE_3_2);BLOCK_EXPORT void * _NSConcreteAutoBlock[32]    __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_6, __IPHONE_3_2);BLOCK_EXPORT void * _NSConcreteFinalizingBlock[32]    __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_6, __IPHONE_3_2);BLOCK_EXPORT void * _NSConcreteWeakBlockVariable[32]    __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_6, __IPHONE_3_2);

关于flags

除了标示Block的类型，还用作reference counting:

volatile int32_t flags; // contains ref count因为最低位被BLOCK_DEALLOCATING使用了，所以ref count每次+2

关于invoke

看代码:

id b = ^(int n, double d, char* s){    NSLog(@"%d %lf %s",n, d, s);};    ((__bridge struct Block_layout*)(b))->invoke((__bridge void *)(b),1,2.345,"hello");

官方解释：

The invoke function pointer is set to a function that takes the Block structure as its first argument and the rest of the arguments (if any) to the Block and executes the Block compound statement.

Runtime Helper Functions

源码的注释这样说的：

A Block can reference four different kinds of things that require help when the Block is copied to the heap.

1) C++ stack based objects

2) References to Objective-C objects

3) Other Blocks

4) __block variables

In these cases helper functions are synthesized by the compiler for use in Block_copy and Block_release, called the copy and dispose helpers. The copy helper emits a call to the C++ const copy constructor for C++ stack based objects and for the rest calls into the runtime support function _Block_object_assign. The dispose helper has a call to the C++ destructor for case 1 and a call into _Block_object_dispose for the rest.

简单来说，当Block引用了 1) C++ 栈上对象 2）OC对象 3) 其他block对象 4) __block修饰的变量，并被拷贝至堆上时则需要copy/dispose辅助函数。辅助函数由编译器生成。

除了case 1，其他三种case都会分别调用下面的函数：

void _Block_object_assign(void *destAddr, const void *object, const int flags);void _Block_object_dispose(const void *object, const int flags);

_Block_object_assign(或者_Block_object_dispose)会根据flags的值来决定调用相应类型的copy helper(或者dispose helper)

例如：

switch (os_assumes(flags & BLOCK_ALL_COPY_DISPOSE_FLAGS)) {      case BLOCK_FIELD_IS_OBJECT:        _Block_retain_object(object);        _Block_assign((void *)object, destAddr);        break;      ...}

上述代码中_Block_retain_object _Block_assign以SPI的形式提供给runtime 和 CoreFoundation进行注入。

原作写于segmentfault