Re: Garbage Collection in 10.4

FROM : Shawn Erickson
DATE : Tue Nov 06 18:12:49 2007

On 11/6/07, Hans van der Meer <<email_removed>> wrote:
> I saw in the archives a question on Garbage Collection on 10.5 but
> that fell in the NDA period.
>
> My question is sligthly different: If I switch over to 10.5 and opt
> for garbage collection in my Cocoa programs, will these programs run
> under 10.4?


No GC using applications will not run on 10.4 systems. GC requires
support from system provided frameworks (let alone the objc runtime)
and that support only exists on Leopard (10.5).

-Shawn