On 2 Jun 2017, at 04:37, Daniel Ferreira (theiostream) <bnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > These functions have "ARC" stamped in their description, however they > seem to work (i.e. not throw any sort of exception or crash) if they > are called outside an ARC context in my Mac, but I'm really not sure > what their behavior looks like in this case. Tomorrow I can try to > investigate if they affect the object's retain count and see if we get > some knowledge out of that.
ARC is specifically designed for incremental deployment. Unlike the abortive attempt to add GC to Objective-C, there is no clear distinction between ARC programs and non-ARC programs. Most use ARC in some compilation units and manual RR in others. David _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev