Labels:text | font | screenshot | black and white | diagram | number | receipt OCR: II-8 Mops General Reference Class Ivar dictionary Object name/link Mops info ^class ^class ivar0 data offset ivar1 name/link ivar2 ^class data offset name/link ^class data offset Figure 2-1-Instance Variables and Objects Notice that the "object" in the above diagram has some "Mops info" at the start-as we men tioned in Lesson 5 of the Tutorial, Mops objects have 8 bytes of extra information at the start. Part of this extra information is a pointer to the class of the object, as we show in the diagram. (We 'll give the full details of this extra information in the technical section later.) Then comes the first ivar, so this is the start of the actual data area of the object. Instance variables are also objects. The main difference (other than the private/public distinc tion) is that they ca ...
