class-dump [1] properly dumps properties as BOOLs where appropriate. Just had a 
quick look over the code but didn’t find anything particular to help you out, 
but you might want to take a look yourself.

[1] https://github.com/nygard/class-dump



> On 16 Φεβ 2015, at 23:27, Akis Kesoglou <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Yeah.  Thanks.
>> 
>> What I'm asking is how can I identify the property as a BOOL when analyzing 
>> property structures so that I can output "BOOL" to a descriptive string and 
>> if I analyze a char, I can output "char" as a descriptive string.
>> 
>> Obviously, I can't use property_getAttributes() since it returns the same 
>> values for BOOL and char.  
>> 
>> What options are available here to detect that a property declared as a BOOL 
>> is a BOOL?
>> 
> 
> objc.h typedefs BOOL as char/bool, as David says, so I don’t think you can 
> infer that a property is BOOL by introspecting the property — you’ll always 
> see char or bool.
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad. Please pardon typos.
>> 
>> On Feb 16, 2015, at 4:13 PM, David Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 16, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Alex Zavatone <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Xcode 5.1.1
>>>> IOS 7.x
>>>> 
>>>> I'm messing with an auto description category for NSObjects with the 
>>>> interest of dumping out a class's properties in the format of property 
>>>> name, property class and string equivalent of property value.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm also considering supporting scalar primitive types that are not 
>>>> NSObjects, such as CGRects, BOOLs and so on. 
>>>> 
>>>> In doing this, I'm checking the property's attributes with 
>>>> property_getAttributes().
>>>> 
>>>> What is confusing here is that for properties that are declared as a non 
>>>> atomic BOOL, the attributes are Tc,N,V, where c codes for a char, 
>>>> according to the docs, according to the Runtime Property Attribute 
>>>> Description Examples.
>>>> 
>>>> A char declared as a property returns exactly the same attributes as a 
>>>> BOOL with property_getAttributes().
>>>> 
>>>> But for an NSString, property_getAttributes()returns "T@"NSString",&,N
>>>> 
>>>> It's easy to detect the NSString properties, but why isn't BOOL included 
>>>> in a BOOL's property attributes?  Is a BOOL just a char (that's what this 
>>>> is telling me)? What is going on under the hood here.  How can I properly 
>>>> identify a BOOL and tell the difference between a BOOL and a char if they 
>>>> are represented the same way?
>>> 
>>> On Mac OS X and 32-bit iOS targets, BOOL is a char, on 64-bit iOS targets 
>>> its a C/C++ style ‘bool’.
>>> 
>>>> Thanks much,
>>>> Alex Zavatone.
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPad. Please pardon typos.
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