Cool! That would eliminate some of the gymnastics I have been going through to make sure I reference the NSData object some time after I use the internal bytes.
On 2012-05-12, at 5:05 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On May 12, 2012, at 13:55 , Dave Fernandes wrote: > >> So when a method is declared __attribute__ ((objc_returns_inner_pointer)), >> then LLVM tracks regular pointers like it would NSObject pointers to see >> when the owning object can be dealloced? Just want to make sure I understand. > > … to see when the owning object's variable's compile time scope ends. Other > retain/release optimizations aside, that would be the point where its retain > count is decremented, and that might in turn trigger deallocation. > > But, yes, basically that's how I understand the documentation. It seems *way* > too convenient to be true. ;) > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
