Under ARC, what’s the recommended/supported way to message an object, given the 
object reference and a selector? I’m implementing an instance of the 
target-action pattern that’s all over Cocoa, but running into roadblocks:

* If I try to use -[NSObject performSelector:withObject:] I get a compiler 
error “PerformSelector may cause a leak because its selector is unknown”.
* If I try to call objc_msgSend directly, it doesn’t work because 
<objc/message.h> has purposely obfuscated the real signature of the function to 
hide its parameters. (Unless I redefine OBJC_OLD_DISPATCH_PROTOTYPES as 1, but 
even if I do that it doesn’t take effect; I’m suspecting message.h gets 
imported during my prefix header or something.)

I’m aware that _in general_, dynamic dispatch can cause bad side effects under 
ARC. But all I want to do is send a message that takes an NSObject parameter 
and returns void, which is safe. Something like:

Widget* newWidget = [self receiveWidget];
SEL action = [self lookupActionForWidget: newWidget];
[self.delegate performSelector: action withObject: newWidget];

—Jens

PS: Using Xcode 6.3, latest SDKs, -Wall, -Werror, etc.
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