OSImmediate protocols

This section describes the protocols supported by OSImmediate.

Instance methods

=

Answer a Boolean indicating whether the receiver and anOSObject are equal. Two immediates are equal if they have the same class and equal values.

asInteger

Attempt to coerce the receiver's value to an integer.

indirectionLevel

Answer the receiver's indirection level.

isImmediate

Answer true if the receiver represents an immediate data element.

isNull

Answer true if the receiver is a NULL value.

notNull

Answer true if the receiver is not a NULL value.

value

Answer the receiver's immediate data coerced into the most appropriate Smalltalk class, as defined by the particular OSObject subclass. For immediates, this is always an unsigned integer.

Class methods

immediate:

Answer a new instance of the receiver with indirection level 0, referencing a data element with the same value as the parameter.

new

Answer a new instance of the receiver with indirection level 0, referencing 0.

value:

Same as immediate:.