Currently gnustep-base raises an exception if the retain count exceeds 24 bits. There's a comment there:
/* I've seen comments saying that some platforms only support up to
* 24 bits in atomic locking, so raise an exception if we try to
* go beyond 0xfffffe.
*/
Is this really true? On what platforms? 24 bits is really not a very big
number. (It is causing me pain right now.)
- lc
