Re: Use of Mac OS X 10.5 / Leopards Garbage Collection Considered Harmful

FROM : Hamish Allan
DATE : Wed Feb 06 23:49:56 2008

On Feb 6, 2008 7:12 PM, Alastair Houghton <<email_removed>> wrote:

> Indeed, I rather wish I hadn't mentioned NSAllocateCollectable(),
> since I think it's only muddied the waters further.


I'm starting to wonder whether much of this debate could have been
avoided if NSAllocateCollectable() hadn't been declared __strong. If
such an attribute is meaningless for a function, it serves only to
mislead and confuse.

Hamish