Re: Implementation of CFBridgingRelease() on GNUstep

[David Chisnall]

On 2 Jun 2017, at 04:37, Daniel Ferreira (theiostream) <address@hidden> 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