On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM, James Gregurich<[email protected]> wrote: > > Bill, > > If you guys are going to some day make that statement the law, then please > keep in mind that whatever you do has to operate with cross platform C++ > code using standard memory management techniques. Many of us have to deal > with other unix systems and Windows. We need this stuff to all cleanly > interoperate with standard code.
Objective-C GC *already* works with cross platform C++ code. Just CFRetain() your ObjC object before handing it off to something that doesn't understand GC (such as an STL container, or as a generic void* stored in unscanned memory, etc.) and CFRelease() it after removing it. I have a decent amount of (old) Objective-C++ code that does just this (e.g. storing Obj-C objects in shared_ptr), and I had nothing to do in order to get it to work under GC. -- Clark S. Cox III [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
