On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:57 PM, Maxthon Chan <xcvi...@me.com> wrote:
> Situation: I am writing a custom decoder that decodes objects from JSON-based 
> archives. My objects gets released prematurely, hence a manual retain is 
> asked for.
> 
> I need to make this thing work across multiple platforms (that is, Cocoa 
> versus GNUstep) but some certain platform does not have the toll-free 
> bridging capabilities of CFRetain/CFRelease functions, or even lacked 
> CoreFoundation at all (that is, GNUstep can be configured to disable 
> toll-free bridging in their implementation of CoreFoundation, or the 
> CoreFoundation library can be missing entirely since it is optional to them). 
> Calls to those functions are what I have to do to make the decoder work.

If you need to manipulate retain counts directly, the supported mechanisms are:
1. call CFRetain or CFRelease or CFAutorelease.
2. call -retain or -release or -autorelease from a non-ARC file.

Do not call objc_retain or objc_release or objc_autorelease directly.


-- 
Greg Parker     gpar...@apple.com     Runtime Wrangler


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