Re: Is anyone using -fobjc-gc?

[John W Kennedy]

The betas for Xcode 7 (the version that goes with OS X 10.11 ["El 
Capitan"] and iOS 9) have the warning, "OS X 10.11 is the last major 
release of OS X that will support the previously deprecated garbage 
collection runtime."


On 2015-08-24 09:08:26 +0000, ChanMaxthon said:

> I would suggest getting rid of -fobjc-gc and let ARC handle NSMatrix.
>
> Apple have long dropped GC support in Xcode so I think no recent 
> project will suffer from this loss, and since most of the Objective-C 
> writers now have more or less some experience tackling iOS where GC 
> never existed in the first place, this is even less of a problem.
>
> However we should put more focus on fixing Toll-Free Bridging and 
> embrace for the impact of Apple open sourcing Swift.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 21, 2015, at 18:34, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Am 21.08.2015 um 12:14 schrieb David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org>:
> > >
> > > It was possible to compile -base (and, I think, -gui) in 
> > > Apple-compatible GC-optional mode, where retain and release are used, 
> > > but so are the GC hooks, allowing the frameworks to be shipped in one 
> > > binary that could work with RR or GC programs, but I have not tried 
> > > this for some years and do not have a great deal of confidence that it 
> > > still works.
> >
> > As for gui, they only place where the GC macros get used is NSMatrix 
> > and I was about to remove them silently, as I didn't believe in this 
> > special magic anyway.
> >
> > Fred
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